Messages in this thread | | | From | Egbert Eich <> | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 1999 12:14:18 +0100 (MET) | Subject | Re: vesafb on archs !ia32 [Re: Calling VESA BIOS routines from kernel?] |
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Chris Wedgwood writes: > > 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). > Very unlikely.
Egbert.
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