Re: vesafb on archs !ia32 [Re: Calling VESA BIOS routines from kernel?]

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:25:29 +0000 (GMT)


> Any sort of kernel space hooks for an x86 emulator would be awesome. I
> would use them immediately to get at some of the stuff S3 hides in its
> BIOS.

I really dont think you want it in kernel space. You might want a way to
dispatch bios int calls but you want to do that via a virtualised user
space PC - and that means virtualising bits of the bios, a low page copy,
a copy of the EBDA, mmapping the bios, virtualising the interrupt controller
and some other minor items.

Its more of a heavily stripped DOSemu than anything else. That beings on user
space.. definitely. Perhaps with an interface so the kernel can send it
'do this int copy these bytes' calls

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