From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 19 19:10:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B04A106568D for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:10:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dima_bsd@inbox.lv) Received: from smtp3.apollo.lv (smtp3.apollo.lv [80.232.168.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D77A28FC66 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:10:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [87.110.119.231] (unknown [87.110.119.231]) by smtp3.apollo.lv (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E95B983D6; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:38:18 +0300 (EEST) From: Dmitriy Demidov To: ed@80386.nl, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:38:16 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908192138.17160.dima_bsd@inbox.lv> X-Lattelecom-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Lattelecom-MailScanner-ID: 5E95B983D6.AD395 X-Lattelecom-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Lattelecom-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-0.901, required 5, BAYES_00 -2.60, RCVD_IN_PBL 0.91, RDNS_NONE 0.10, SPF_FAIL 0.69) X-Lattelecom-MailScanner-From: dima_bsd@inbox.lv X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Subject: vesa driver already for amd64! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:10:08 -0000 Hello. I just want to make you know about one ongoing project of "porting" vesa driver from i386 into amd64 architecture. You can read more about it's status in English here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6291 Or in Russian here: http://forum.lissyara.su/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19906 The author of this effort is one skilled programmer who is hiding behind the nickname "paradox" (I'm not ilvolved in this project - so all glories and questions you should address to him, ok? :) The ability to run vesa console driver in amd64 became a reality after porting of x86emu from OpenBSD performed by paradox. At this moment there already is ability to use vesa mode in early stages of FreeBSD booting process and to have hight screen resolutions@32bit in console!!! Work is still in progress at this moment. The is one question regarding of this project: do FreeBSD community and official commiters is interested in this feature? Is there any possibility to see this code commited in official FreeBSD tree? Ed, can you please take a look on this code? I know about ongoing work in syscons. May be this solution will be good enought to be used right now, and may be it will help to speed up new graphical console development (on what you are working now)? Best regards!