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. -- \\ 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
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