Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 15:13:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty), chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA PnP / snd PnP developments? Message-ID: <199805052213.PAA00806@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 May 1998 07:39:23 -0000." <199805050739.AAA16950@usr02.primenet.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > We don't use bios calls for drivers however very recently someone checked in > > code to make bios calls which can come in handy for video adapters video > > modes. > > Making INT 10 calls is generally a bad idea. > > It requires taking down most of the outstanding operations manually > from the kernel side, in the expectation of CLI/STI/etc.. Given that the calls in question run inside a VM86 penalty box, most of your qualms here are fundamentally invalid - suspension of interrupts etc. by the video BIOS isn't going to be a problem. -- \\ 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199805052213.PAA00806>