This just hit phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1NDc
I'm extracting a driver from linux for use in coreboot, using the semantic patch tool. The goal is to let coreboot draw a splash screen in the first 200 milliseconds or so after power on. I've got a lot of bits working, as I explained in my question to the list. Graphics drivers are, I am finding, a very hard thing to extract, esp. the intel drivers, as the GPUs are very complex, and the hardware more so: every link needs to be trained. This is not vga ... it gets messy. This is not the same as a shim to let you run source. It's rewriting source with semantic patches, and it's much more powerful. It has occurred to me more than once that one could use this same technique to programatically create native hardware drivers for plan 9 and avoid vesa. You might even be able to get coccinnelle running on plan 9 with cinap's excellent linuxemu tool so you can do the patch. ron
