From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Antonino Daplas Subject: Re: Finding Aki M Laukkanen's VESAFBD project? Date: 18 Mar 2003 05:39:04 +0800 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1047936527.3668.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <3E71B0FE.1534.4BFD86E@localhost> <3E75A1EB.8118.1424F41D@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from pine.compass.com.ph ([202.70.96.37]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18v2NH-0007AO-00 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:42:27 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3E75A1EB.8118.1424F41D@localhost> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Kendall Bennett Cc: Linux Fbdev development list 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en