Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >The rest of the code you have above seems superfluous to me as we have 
> >never needed to do that. Then again we boot the card using the BIOS 
> >emulator, which is different because it runs within a 
> >protected machine 
> >state.
> >
> >Have you taken a look at the X.org code? They have code in 
> >there to POST 
> >the video card also (either using vm86() or the BIOS emulator).
> >
> 
> I have done some experiments with this video post stuff.
> I think this should be done using x86 emulator rather than doing 
> in real mode. The reason being, with an userlevel emulator we can call
> it at different times during resume. The current real mode videopost
> does 

Actually Ole Rohne has patch that allows you to call real mode any
time you want.
								Pavel
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