Re: vesafb on archs !ia32 [Re: Calling VESA BIOS routines from kernel?]

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:55:00 +0000

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.

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dwmw2






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