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From: & Reilly <andrew@zeta.org.au>
To: "Pedro Giffuni S," <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Subject: Re: Fun with DOSCMD (was Re: modifying boot mgrs FROM FREEBSD)
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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

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