Re: Need for VBE helper functions?

[Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>]

Vesa Jääskeläinen <chaac@nic.fi> writes:

Hi Vesa,

> I have been making video driver for VBE and currently at beginning of
> that file there are codes for those VBE helpers defined in
> (include/grub/i386/pc/vbe.h). As I had some issues with mixing them with
> each other I renamed all kernel stubs like from grub_vbe_* to
> grub_vbe_bios_* so they cannot be easily mixed.
>
> I was thinking that is there a still need to have those helper functions
> at all there? If they will be there I will use them from driver code, if
> not, I will integrate the functionality to driver code. By integrating
> the code to driver it would make that driver file more easier to read,
> but then we lose option to use those helpers directly. One option is to
> move them elsewhere, but then there is a problem what is the module name
> and where.

So what you have now is some VBE functions and a video driver and you
are wondering if they should be merged?  I think that shouldn't be
done because multiboot should also use VBE to switch video modes.

> I will update shortly (tomorrow most likely) wiki with results of the
> newest API design round. After I think it is correct I will concentrate
> on enhancing the terminal code to make use of newly added functionality.

Cool!

Thanks,
Marco