Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Jan 2000 14:04:12 +0200 (EET) | From | Aki M Laukkanen <> | Subject | Re: vm86 in kernel [was: vesafb...] |
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Kendall Bennett wrote: > I thought there was another guy who developed a kenel module that > uses the vm86 stuff internally in the kernel to communiate with the > VBE 2.0/3.0 BIOS without needing a user space daemon? Is there some
Atleast I'm not aware of such a patch. Do you have a pointer to it?
> limitation on using the vm86 services in the kernel from another part > of the kernel directly (as opposed to from a user space app)?
This is what I hoped for originally but according to Alan Cox was hackish or unsuitable. I don't know about the details.
-- D.
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