Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Mar 1998 07:03:10 +0100 (CET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: GGI, EGCS/PGCC, Kernel source |
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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > drivers/hw/fbdev/fbdev.c is about all IIRC. > > > > > > KGI/m68k runs on top of fbcons.c. KGI exists in part because > > > fbcons.c was never ported to VGA-style hardware. > > > > Thats a good start. Cos fbcon exists for vga text mode now, > > When did this happen? This is good. Now we can potentially make
Some months ago. It's called drivers/video/vgacon.c.
> the textmode-only KGI in-kernel mini boot display driver run completely on > top of fbcons.c, which in theory would port KGI to any Linux/xxx which has > > VGA-style textmodes are a historical anomaly. Better to design > around software textmodes as an abstraction and just map it onto whatever > HW you have.
Greetings,
Geert (who's still away, as Jes already pointed out :-)
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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