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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD 
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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:10:27 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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> - Disable primary VGA compatibility mappings
> - Disable primary VGA BIOS mapping
> - Foreach non-primary video adapter
>    - Enable VGA compatibility mappings
>    - Enable VGA BIOS mapping
>    - Make BIOS initialisation call(s)
>    - Disable VGA compatibility mappings
>    - Disable VGA BIOS mapping
> - Ensable primary VGA compatibility mappings
> - Ensable primary VGA BIOS mapping
>
>as well as providing some mechanism for nominating which card of the 
>set should be mapped at any given time?
>
>Any ideas as to whether card BIOSses would respond well to having their 
>initialisation code called in v86 mode rather than real mode?  I think 
>this sort of approach could be quite viable.

It's definitely worth trying!

Kazu

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