From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 01:49:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B7081065672 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:49:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45FB8FC17 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:49:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c30so1330426ika.3 for ; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:49:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=qnWemti97UYNVzKjg+2Ron10PtYKn1CMkHrwGzJh53E=; b=V/lQQX7LDeelsJJboRz+3jD3AuHHurS3aVJ9mUk4xkdyleL6e91/fFqBBZjHySC7Sr p1A65HGDiBF+cYdgMKQVAfVyrbp8bNi+kYvHDSdnqIoKBqH0SFUP4Kj5PUN8UxJPRYYC HxkbWrjpXdiWwSM+NrYQhyVwK1l5uGQ26Sga4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=jQiW3GbfxnIvFY/2wz5YuGBX2Y1MdXWlgelRh3BLWCD15DDegco5zqs2w9LfMm8XIr EKv5du7Wt6LFD5+QAhhs1RCgh/2vDgyVk7O5C2Zheq9+TNBbNhTaaY7rvApvJNCPRONt tLEbA4nOYtohlnyRFRCd1JGd1yY5/6hOLulSs= Received: by 10.103.204.3 with SMTP id g3mr5886700muq.30.1220406578019; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:49:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.103.231.14 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 18:49:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 22:49:38 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" To: "FreeBSD Current" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Why VESA and DPMS are available only for i386? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:49:40 -0000 Hello, Several PRs were closed based on the argument that FreeBSD/amd64 cannot call to the VESA BIOS. XFree86 solved this problem by means of the INT10 module. I believe that it would be possible to do the same on the FreeBSD kernel. Is there any ongoing effort to enable the VESA kernel moule on non-i386 platform? Is there any particular difficulty for doing this, besides depending on VM86? -- cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life make clean