From: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
To: Kendall Bennett <KendallB@scitechsoft.com>
Cc: Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Finding Aki M Laukkanen's VESAFBD project?
Date: 18 Mar 2003 05:39:04 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1047936527.3668.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E75A1EB.8118.1424F41D@localhost>
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 02:22, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> The other option is to use the x86emu BIOS emulator project. Then you
> don't need to do any of this stuff and instead can warm boot all the
> graphics controllers using the BIOS from the card (see the sample
> 'warmboot' program included in the source code archives). The code is
> presently 32-bit specific I believe, so you would have two choices for
> running this from real mode - port the code to a 16-bit C compiler or
> port it to run in 32-bit real mode. I assume you are probably thinking of
> during the boot phase of GRUB or LILO, so at that point you will have
> full control and should be able to execute 32-bit real mode code. You may
Interesting, an x86 emulator while in real mode... This is probably
worth a try. Thanks.
Tony
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-17 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-14 18:37 Finding Aki M Laukkanen's VESAFBD project? Kendall Bennett
2003-03-14 18:56 ` Jon Smirl
2003-03-14 19:42 ` Kendall Bennett
2003-03-14 20:11 ` Jon Smirl
2003-03-14 22:57 ` Kendall Bennett
2003-03-14 23:22 ` Jon Smirl
2003-03-15 9:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-03-17 18:22 ` Kendall Bennett
2003-03-16 23:00 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-17 18:22 ` Kendall Bennett
2003-03-17 21:39 ` Antonino Daplas [this message]
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