Re: vesafb on archs !ia32 [Re: Calling VESA BIOS routines from kernel?]
Egbert Eich (eich@hilbert.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de)
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 12:14:18 +0100 (MET)
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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