From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 23 12:07:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28291 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 12:07:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28259; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 12:06:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00874; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:05:43 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199803232005.VAA00874@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: BIOS calls In-Reply-To: <19980323132130.50051@right.PCS> from Jonathan Lemon at "Mar 23, 98 01:21:30 pm" To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:05:43 +0100 (MET) Cc: abial@nask.pl, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Jonathan Lemon who wrote: > > > In reply to Jonathan Lemon who wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm about to add support to -current for calling real-mode BIOS > > > > functions from the kernel. The first use of this will be to get > > > > the correct memory size from INT 15:E820/E801/88 calls. > > > > > > eeeiiii haaaa... > > > > hip, hip, hurrayyy!!! > > > > Does it mean there are chances for userland video library supporting > > hi-res graphics? :-)) > > Probably; I think you'd have to talk to Soren about that. I don't > know anything about graphics, other than they look pretty. :-) I'll be watching this closely and add the needed stuff to syscons/libvgl as soon as possible.. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message