Re: vm86 in kernel [was: vesafb...]

From: Aki M Laukkanen (amlaukka@cc.helsinki.fi)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 07:04:12 EST

Next message: thunder7@xs4all.nl: "cacheflush_time in arch/i386/kernel/smp.c (2.2.15pre4)"
Previous message: Jeff Garzik: "Re: [patch-2.3.40-pre6] kzalloc() (ala kmem_zalloc() of SVR4)"
In reply to: Kendall Bennett: "Re: [ANNOUNCE] vesafb full VBE 2.0 support"
Next in thread: Alan Cox: "Re: vm86 in kernel [was: vesafb...]"
Reply: Alan Cox: "Re: vm86 in kernel [was: vesafb...]"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> I thought there was another guy who developed a kenel module that
> uses the vm86 stuff internally in the kernel to communiate with the
> VBE 2.0/3.0 BIOS without needing a user space daemon? Is there some

Atleast I'm not aware of such a patch. Do you have a pointer to it?

> limitation on using the vm86 services in the kernel from another part
> of the kernel directly (as opposed to from a user space app)?

This is what I hoped for originally but according to Alan Cox was hackish
or unsuitable. I don't know about the details.

-- D.

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Next message: thunder7@xs4all.nl: "cacheflush_time in arch/i386/kernel/smp.c (2.2.15pre4)"
Previous message: Jeff Garzik: "Re: [patch-2.3.40-pre6] kzalloc() (ala kmem_zalloc() of SVR4)"
In reply to: Kendall Bennett: "Re: [ANNOUNCE] vesafb full VBE 2.0 support"
Next in thread: Alan Cox: "Re: vm86 in kernel [was: vesafb...]"
Reply: Alan Cox: "Re: vm86 in kernel [was: vesafb...]"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Jan 23 2000 - 21:00:29 EST