From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan McDowell Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] fbdev: uvesafb Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:42:41 +0100 Message-ID: <20070626104241.GR8547@earth.li> References: <20070623104920.GA12623@spock.one.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070623104920.GA12623@spock.one.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/ -- ] http://www.earth.li/~noodles/ [] noodles is criminal [ ] PGP/GPG Key @ the.earth.li [] [ ] via keyserver, web or email. [] [ ] RSA: 4DC4E7FD / DSA: 5B430367 [] [