Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262656AbUJ0T7H (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:59:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262671AbUJ0Tz0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:55:26 -0400 Received: from mail.scitechsoft.com ([63.195.13.67]:6072 "EHLO mail.scitechsoft.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262605AbUJ0Tw5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:52:57 -0400 From: "Kendall Bennett" Organization: SciTech Software, Inc. To: Paulo Marques Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:52:56 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? CC: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxconsole-dev@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <417F9A28.3690.3FE4ECFC@localhost> In-reply-to: <417F8269.2070307@grupopie.com> References: <417E9E3D.573.3C0CDE1A@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Spam-Flag: NO Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1541 Lines: 40 Paulo Marques wrote: > One other thing, is there a simple way to test the emulator? I've > been careful with the changes I did not to change the resulting > behaviour of the emulator, but I can not _absolutely_ sure that I > didn't break anything. It would be very good to try the emulator > in a controlled environment. Unfortunately the test code I wrote years ago is only for Open Watcom and uses inline assembler. It hasn't been used for some time and I am not sure if it works properly or not (I don't think it does right now). Plus we recently found out that it doesn't test everything, just the implementation of prim_ops.c. The only real way to test the emulator is to use it to emulate some code. We don't have any code we use on a regular basis to test it, but perhaps we should think about building a test suite for it. Usually we test it on Video BIOS ROM's, but that is painful because you have to switch video cards all the time. XFree86 and X.org do use the same code so it could be tested there, but once again it is only used for Video BIOS ROM stuff. Regards, --- Kendall Bennett Chief Executive Officer SciTech Software, Inc. Phone: (530) 894 8400 http://www.scitechsoft.com ~ SciTech SNAP - The future of device driver technology! ~ - 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/