Why VESA and DPMS are available only for i386?

From: Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixmania_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 22:49:38 -0300
Hello,

Several PRs were closed based on the argument that FreeBSD/amd64
cannot call to the VESA BIOS. XFree86 solved this problem by means of
the INT10 module. I believe that it would be possible to do the same
on the FreeBSD kernel.

Is there any ongoing effort to enable the VESA kernel moule on
non-i386 platform? Is there any particular difficulty for doing this,
besides depending on VM86?

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Received on Tue Sep 02 2008 - 23:49:40 UTC

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