Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:30:18 +0200
From: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] fbdev: uvesafb
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On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 02:04:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2007, Michal Januszewski wrote:
> >  The current implementation of v86d can use either LRMI or
> > x86emu to run the BIOS code and supports both x86 and x86_64.
> 
> Is there a fundamental reason why you can't also run it on
> non-x86 machines, or has this simply not been tested so far?

AFAIK it should be possible to get it to work on non-x86.  One would
have to implement the IO functions for x86emu and mmap the Video BIOS,
both of which should be relatively easy tasks.  I don't however have 
direct access to hardware other than x86(_64) and thus haven't had a
chance to write such code and test it.

Best regards,
Michal

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