> >
> > > On most cards, VESA is provided by a DOS TSR. Do you really
> > > want to put DOSEMU in the kernel?
> >
> > Six of my last seven video cards provided native VESA support
> > without any driver being loaded, so I'd have to consider that a
> > very weak excuse that doesn't bear up to even the flimsiest
> > scrutiny...
>
> VESA 2.0 or 1.0? Virtually every SVGA card supports VESA 1.0 in
> ROM, but that is a real-mode BIOS. AFAIK relatively few cards support
> VESA 2.0 in ROM, which is where the whole DOS TSR thing came in.
They support the core VBE stuff in the ROM - the register tables, bank/linear
management abstracts etc. The drivers themselves CAN be provided as a code
ready to be injected into the application space.
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