From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] fbdev: uvesafb Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:12:01 +0800 Message-ID: <1184227922.4504.22.camel@daplas> References: <20070623104920.GA12623@spock.one.pl> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I8tmV-0006v8-2d for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:12:12 -0700 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.229]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1I8tmU-0003ni-Ij for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:12:10 -0700 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f1so144087nzc for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:12:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070623104920.GA12623@spock.one.pl> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: spock@gentoo.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 12:49 +0200, Michal Januszewski wrote: My apologies for the delayed response. I had problems with my ISP. > 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. > > [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/ > [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ > This is cool, I had a similar project before (which did work) but abandoned it. In fact, it need not be restricted to vbe, as long as the userspace daemon can interpret VESA. Tony ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/