From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 23 15:31:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29466 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:31:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29428; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:31:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04582; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:37:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199809232237.PAA04582@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Sep 1998 22:16:49 +0200." <199809232016.WAA03829@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:37:08 -0700 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id PAB29436 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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