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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:00:04 +0200
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To: Kendall Bennett <KendallB@scitechsoft.com>
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Hi!

> I am writing this email to guage the interest in having code contributed 
> to the main stream Linux kernel that would support the user of a generic, 
> full featured VESA framebuffer driver that works on any CPU architecture 
> along with a generic Video card BOOT or POST mechanism.

This is pretty much neccessary for suspend-to-RAM, and there's a *lot*
of interest in that.

								Pavel
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