Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: vesafb on archs !ia32 [Re: Calling VESA BIOS routines from kernel?] | Date | Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:55:00 +0000 |
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eich@hilbert.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de said: > Why can't we turn on/switch the thin on run time? Have a simple > utility execute the bios call from user space and then inform vesafb > of the new paramters. But please: no IA32 emulator in the kernel!
A fine plan. This would also allow us to use the vesafb code on other architectures - all we need is a tool which can use the X4.0 loadable modules to set up a linear framebuffer mode, then tell the kernel about it.
-- dwmw2
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