From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761417AbXGLIMZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:12:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757805AbXGLIMN (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:12:13 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.225]:42970 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757914AbXGLIMK (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:12:10 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=m9Sd1nmnAp6pab+FqDni0fUz54SiyUT7GfJ98uIaU65s3h1lm2lF83Sdxhpx3w5fG+qBzpH1LdLnoxdb3yX5B6pAVtMJcJEpWBjE0ec4jsXdlgP6/LjsI1P8CG4e+IUMlzMWTgXDk191TYkNugl1SVJBxDelaBJ+sfb12SdM9ls= Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 0/4] fbdev: uvesafb From: "Antonino A. Daplas" To: spock@gentoo.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070623104920.GA12623@spock.one.pl> References: <20070623104920.GA12623@spock.one.pl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:12:01 +0800 Message-Id: <1184227922.4504.22.camel@daplas> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: 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