From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: spock@gentoo.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 0/4] fbdev: uvesafb
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:12:01 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184227922.4504.22.camel@daplas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070623104920.GA12623@spock.one.pl>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-12 8:12 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
2007-06-30 16:39 ` Michal Januszewski
2007-07-12 8:12 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
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