From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 8 17:57:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF08B14BDD for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:57:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02086; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:51:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199903090151.RAA02086@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: David Dawes Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GGI In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 Mar 1999 15:25:41 +1100." <19990307152541.O4858@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 17:51:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Speaking of which (the Linux fb driver, not GGI), we're just adding a > driver to XFree86 4.0 that can use the Linux fb driver. It is useful > from our point of view for getting initial unaccelerated support for > otherwise unsupported video cards. I had a feeling that something > similar could be done for FreeBSD (using the VESA support in -current). > Is that right? If so, is anyone interested in doing it? It should be very simple; basically all that's missing right now is the ability to get the linear framebuffer address information from the VESA BIOS back into user-space. You should have no trouble mapping the video aperture. Would you want an interface for page-flipping etc. as well? Any design proposals that would make life optimal for you? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message