On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Xin LI <delphij_at_delphij.net> wrote: > 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, I'm reading the specification and digging at the code of the X server and the X VESA driver. Look promising. -- cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life make cleanReceived on Mon Sep 15 2008 - 02:59:27 UTC
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