From: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
To: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] fbdev: uvesafb
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:42:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070626104241.GR8547@earth.li> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070623104920.GA12623@spock.one.pl>
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 12:49:20PM +0200, Michal Januszewski wrote:
> 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.
Have you considered using libx86[1] in v86d? It looks very similar to
what you have at present and there are plans to extend it to non
x86(_64) archs.
J.
[1] http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/libx86/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-26 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-23 10:49 [PATCH 0/4] fbdev: uvesafb Michal Januszewski
2007-06-23 12:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-23 12:30 ` Michal Januszewski
2007-06-26 10:42 ` Jonathan McDowell [this message]
2007-06-30 16:39 ` Michal Januszewski
2007-07-12 8:12 ` Antonino A. Daplas
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