Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:50:38PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >In the long run, graphics drivers need to know how to program cards from 
> >scratch rather than depending on 80x25 text mod being there for them.
> 
> True in theory, but that's a task of immense proportions.  The Video 
> BIOS is often the only place where RAM timings and other board-specific 
> data lives.

We lose at ACPI support unless we can do this, unfortunately - the "run 
chunks of video BIOS" fallbacks aren't going to work forever.
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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