Re: Q2: Framebuffer?

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:10:56 +0000

> > And technically, it's possible to do so afterwards. There have been
> > block device drivers which switch to vm86 mode and call INT 13h, and
> > it should be possible to treat INT 10h in a similar fashion,
> > depending on how well-behaved the BIOS code is.

riedel@taraz.kz said:
> Perfectly! Where in
> kernel souces tree can i it look?

I said 'there have been', not 'there are'.
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/kernel/patches/misc/bios-patches.70.tar.gz

(if I've translated the address correctly from the local mirror)

It's against 1.1.70. You might do better to take a look at the BSD code which
apparently does something similar for providing INT 10h calls.

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