Re: [PATCH 0/4] fbdev: uvesafb

[Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 12:49:20PM +0200, Michal Januszewski wrote:
> 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.

Have you considered using libx86[1] in v86d? It looks very similar to
what you have at present and there are plans to extend it to non
x86(_64) archs.

J.

[1] http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/libx86/

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