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?
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:00:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041021230027.GA24762@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88056F38E9E48644A0F562A38C64FB600328792F@scsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-21 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-21 22:28 [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2004-10-21 22:28 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2004-10-21 23:00 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-10-22 17:10 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-22 17:10 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Kendall Bennett
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2004-10-22 18:04 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2004-10-22 17:16 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2004-10-22 16:36 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2004-10-22 17:19 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-22 17:31 ` Stefan Dösinger
2004-10-21 23:44 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2004-10-21 23:44 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2004-10-22 1:39 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-10-22 12:57 ` Stefan Dösinger
2004-10-21 23:10 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2004-10-21 23:10 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2004-10-21 23:23 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-14 19:02 Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 18:36 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 21:51 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-15 21:51 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-15 22:12 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-16 0:41 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-16 0:41 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-26 11:14 ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-26 11:14 ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-27 1:58 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-27 11:11 ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-27 19:52 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-27 19:52 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-16 17:44 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-18 19:34 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Kendall Bennett
2004-10-19 21:11 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 17:01 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Kendall Bennett
2004-10-20 17:31 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 18:44 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-20 19:10 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-21 19:36 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-21 20:47 ` Richard Smith
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