Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Dec 1998 17:50:26 -0000 (GMT) | From | Simon Kenyon <> | Subject | Re: fbdev and S3 chips |
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On 19-Dec-98 Meelis Roos wrote: > No. In the case of VESA, the VESA BIOS is used to initialize the video > card to use linear frambuffer. Then the loaded BIOS is discarded and > linux uses the linear framebuffer. > You can't use real mode BIOS inside protected mode kernel. At least with > todays design, and I see no point of putting some real mode emulation in > protected mode kernel, better write some new good drivers.
ah well it was a thought just pay your taxes to bill gates like everyone else :-( -- simon
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