Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: vesafb on archs !ia32 [Re: Calling VESA BIOS routines from kernel?] | | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:01:01 +0000 (GMT) | | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> framebuffer". I can't believe I'll have to write an IA32 emulator into the > kernel to do that (on sane hardware I would achieve the switch with a pair > of writel() in the MMIO I think).
Its about 100 outw()'s to put an S3 card into the right mode, and I think that is fairly typical. Some of them are also board not chipset dependant too. Notably the memory timings on things like the Cirrus logic boards.
Alan
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