Messages in this thread | | | From | "Antonino A. Daplas" <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:27:38 +0800 |
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On Friday 15 October 2004 03:02, Kendall Bennett wrote: > So what we would like to find out is how much interest there might be in > both an updated VESA framebuffer console driver as well as the code for > the Video card BOOT process being contributed to the maintstream kernel. > If there is interest, we would start out by first contributing the core > emulator and Video BOOT code, and then work on building a better VESA > framebuffer console driver. > > So what do you guys think? >
I'm for it, if you can get the code in the kernel. If not, what are the arguments against doing this in userspace?
If you remember about 2 years ago, there was a thread which you started about vesafbd. From that, I've worked on vm86d which is a generic approach to running BIOS code in user space. I stopped development on this though, but it should be easy to revive. There is also vesafb-tng. I think it runs BIOS code in kernel space.
The video BOOT code is also nice, especially for non-primary graphics cards.
Tony
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