Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 09:36:26 +1000 From: & Reilly <andrew@zeta.org.au> To: "Pedro Giffuni S," <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fun with DOSCMD (was Re: modifying boot mgrs FROM FREEBSD) Message-ID: <19970812093626.05693@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <33EF3CB0.3148@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>; from Pedro Giffuni S, on Mon, Aug 11, 1997 at 09:24:16AM -0700 References: <199708110641.IAA02115@sos.freebsd.dk> <33EF3CB0.3148@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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On Mon, Aug 11, 1997 at 09:24:16AM -0700, Pedro Giffuni S, wrote: > Søren Schmidt wrote: > > > > Give me the means to run realmode code from within the kernel, and I'll > > teach syscons how to use it :) > > > How does X11 do it? svgalib is supposed to be based on X11, but it seems > like they nuked everything related with coherence and stability. Maybe now that XFree has produced a working framework for accelerated graphics hardware (XAA) this could be used to design a propper intelligent frame buffer device that could be properly part of the FreeBSD kernel, and used by syscons and X alike, with X reverting to its original role of primitives on top of a frame buffer, rather than a user-mode device driver. -- Andrew "The steady state of disks is full." -- Ken Thompson
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