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Date:      Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:37:08 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        sos@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, adhir@worldbank.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include console.h src/sys/i386/isa scvesactl.c scvidctl.c syscons.c syscons.h vesa.c videoio.c 
Message-ID:  <199809232237.PAA04582@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Sep 1998 22:16:49 %2B0200." <199809232016.WAA03829@sos.freebsd.dk> 

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> In reply to Mike Smith who wrote:
> > > 
> > > >Is the VESA support going to be supported with SMP any time soon?
> > > >
> > > >Thanks...
> > > 
> > > Hmm, the VESA support depends on VM86.  So the question really is... 
> > > Is VM86 going to work in the SMP environment?
> > 
> > I can't see any really obvious reasons why it won't (but perhaps I'm 
> > being blind here).  Has anyone tried it?
> 
> It makes both of my SMP machines panic in cninit_finish because no
> video adapter has been found. It works just fine when I run them
> on a UP kernel....

You mean that the VESA call has failed?  How is this different to a 
system with no VESA BIOS?

I can't see how having vm86 enabled would cause your code not to find 
the video hardware - this seems completely unrelated.

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