Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267324AbUJOAad (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:30:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266186AbUJOAad (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:30:33 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.hotpop.com ([38.113.3.61]:14265 "EHLO smtp-out.hotpop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267324AbUJOA27 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:28:59 -0400 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Reply-To: adaplas@pol.net To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "Kendall Bennett" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:27:38 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, penguinppc-team@lists.penguinppc.org References: <416E6ADC.3007.294DF20D@localhost> In-Reply-To: <416E6ADC.3007.294DF20D@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410150827.38943.adaplas@hotpop.com> X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1262 Lines: 30 On Friday 15 October 2004 03:02, Kendall Bennett wrote: > So what we would like to find out is how much interest there might be in > both an updated VESA framebuffer console driver as well as the code for > the Video card BOOT process being contributed to the maintstream kernel. > If there is interest, we would start out by first contributing the core > emulator and Video BOOT code, and then work on building a better VESA > framebuffer console driver. > > So what do you guys think? > I'm for it, if you can get the code in the kernel. If not, what are the arguments against doing this in userspace? If you remember about 2 years ago, there was a thread which you started about vesafbd. From that, I've worked on vm86d which is a generic approach to running BIOS code in user space. I stopped development on this though, but it should be easy to revive. There is also vesafb-tng. I think it runs BIOS code in kernel space. The video BOOT code is also nice, especially for non-primary graphics cards. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/