Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > 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? > According to VESA's VBE 3.0 standard, there is a "Protected Mode Entry Point" [optionally] provided by BIOS, which OS or application is supposed to copy to a place where it is writable. The code there would be written in 16-bit protected mode. Therefore I think it's do-able... http://www.vesa.org/public/VBE/vbe3.pdf Cheers,Received on Sun Sep 14 2008 - 19:35:15 UTC
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