Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

Rene Herman
2007-05-02T21:10:25Z

On 05/02/2007 10:59 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> I'm having a framework for multiple drivers (probe and set methods,
> basically); the stock distro will have VGA and VESA drivers only.
> Dropping new drivers in is trivial if someone wants to.

It sounds like going overboard a bit; 80x25 standard VGA, 80x43/50 line VGA
(settable through simple BIOS calls) and VESA (80x60, 132x25/43/50/60) is
all that anyone wants. If Bochs and Qemu emulata a CL54xx, they'll provide a
VESA BIOS for it as well, I suppose?

Rene.