Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:00:27 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Kendall Bennett <KendallB@scitechsoft.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?
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Hi!

> >The rest of the code you have above seems superfluous to me as we have 
> >never needed to do that. Then again we boot the card using the BIOS 
> >emulator, which is different because it runs within a 
> >protected machine 
> >state.
> >
> >Have you taken a look at the X.org code? They have code in 
> >there to POST 
> >the video card also (either using vm86() or the BIOS emulator).
> >
> 
> I have done some experiments with this video post stuff.
> I think this should be done using x86 emulator rather than doing 
> in real mode. The reason being, with an userlevel emulator we can call
> it at different times during resume. The current real mode videopost
> does 

Actually Ole Rohne has patch that allows you to call real mode any
time you want.
								Pavel
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