Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:47:48 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: vesafb on archs !ia32 [Re: Calling VESA BIOS routines from kernel?] |
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> I'd definitely prfer the vm to be running in user mode via > callbacks. That keeps the 8086 vm handling a lot cleaner, and also > means it doesnt blow your machine to bits every time you meet a > bios bug. Having a single vm doing all the jobs makes sense > however, as it keeps the bios single threaded in its happy virtual > world
Hopefully, it will also mean that such a monstrosity is only loaded by Xfree when it detects you have a card which it cannot initialize itself anyhow... (I'm assuming here that many non-sucky cards will be able to be initialize by their respective drivers eventually).
-cw
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