Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:48:27 +0000 | | From | Helge Hafting <> | | Subject | Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? |
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On 14-10-2004 21:02:36, Kendall Bennett wrote: > Hello All, [...] > 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.
The BOOT stuff is very interesting. Currently, both my videocards (in the same pc) have nice hw-specific framebuffer drivers, but they require that the card is initialized by the bios first and this only ever happens to one of the cards. Xfree _can_ do the job, but way too late for setting up the framebuffer device.
> 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.
Having video BOOT would be great, and please make it independent of the framebuffer drivers. I might want to try your vesa driver, but I might also want to use the hw-accelerated chip specific driver that happens to need an initialized video card.
Helge Hafting
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