Re: [PATCH 0/4] fbdev: uvesafb

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 12:49 +0200, Michal Januszewski wrote:

My apologies for the delayed response. I had problems with my ISP.
 
> uvesafb is a generic driver for VBE2+ compliant video cards; an enhanced
> version of vesafb and a direct successor of vesafb-tng [1].
> 
> uvesafb uses a userspace helper application (v86d, [2]) to run the x86
> Video BIOS code.  This makes it possible to include in uvesafb all the
> standard features (refresh rate control, video mode changes etc) that
> are missing from vesafb without resorting to ugly hacks such as the ones
> used in [1].  The current implementation of v86d can use either LRMI or
> x86emu to run the BIOS code and supports both x86 and x86_64.
> 
> [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/
> [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/
> 

This is cool, I had a similar project before (which did work) but
abandoned it. In fact, it need not be restricted to vbe, as long as the
userspace daemon can interpret VESA.

Tony



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