From owner-cvs-all Thu Sep 17 04:19:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA20670 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 04:19:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA20658; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 04:19:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA06195; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:19:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199809171119.NAA06195@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/isa scvidctl.c videoio.c videoio.h syscons.c syscons.h src/sys/alpha/conf files.alpha src/sys/al In-Reply-To: from Doug Rabson at "Sep 17, 98 11:10:44 am" To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:19:11 +0200 (CEST) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.org, dfr@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Doug Rabson who wrote: > > Actually I think I could get VESA working on the alpha by using some kind > of x86 emulator to run the BIOS. That is what the firmware does when it > boots and Linux has some code. Sounds like a lot of work though. Yeah, and icky at best. > I had to merge the headers since the new vidcontrol wouldn't build and I > decided to merge the rest to try and keep the alpha version from diverging > too much and making life even more difficult when we try and produce a > unified console. OK, I have to get the bugs in the new code shaken out first, including the savers, then lets find a way to unify the beasts... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? ..