Messages in this thread | | | From | "Kendall Bennett" <> | Date | Sat, 22 Jan 2000 14:07:05 -0800 | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] vesafb full VBE 2.0 support |
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Aki M Laukkanen <amlaukka@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> Patch to vesafb adds support for communicating with a user-space > daemon. This user-space daemon uses the LRMI library by Josh > Vanderhoof (need his e-mail) to call real-mode VBE 2.0 functions to > set the mode, pan the display and perform other framebuffer > functions. Thanks to Alan Cox for the idea and mailing the LRMI > library.
I thought there was another guy who developed a kenel module that uses the vm86 stuff internally in the kernel to communiate with the VBE 2.0/3.0 BIOS without needing a user space daemon? Is there some limitation on using the vm86 services in the kernel from another part of the kernel directly (as opposed to from a user space app)?
Regards,
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