Re: your mail

Jon M. Taylor (taylorj@ecs.csus.edu)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 19:24:41 -0700 (PDT)


On 12 Aug 1998, Zlatko Calusic wrote:

> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
>
> > > Suppose somebody writes support for S3Trio (and other cards that are
> > > VESA 1.2 compliant), so they became VESA 2.0 compliant. Something like
> > > UNIVBE and S3VBE20 for MS-DOG. It would probably go in video.S.
> > >
> > > Would something like that find a way to official kernel?
> > > Is it even possible to write something like that?
> >
> > You'd be better off writing some svga drivers for fbcon - I'd suggest
> > you start by talking to the kgicon guys. Why fight the crude VESA interfaces
> > when you can write the code in 32bit C anyway ?
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
>
> You're definitely right, but would I have a penguin at boot in that
> case?

If you compiled the driver into the kernel as your boot-time
display driver, sure. Same as vesafb.

Jon

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