On Aug 20, 07 15:45:00 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 17:27 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote: > > > Because we won't get an ix86 emulator in kernel space, Linus and others > > have been pretty clear about that. Graphics hardware sometimes needs > > BIOS calls, on non-i386 hardware that has to be done by an emulator. > > Post-boot, for the primary card, I don't know what hardware requires > BIOS calls at ths point. We certainly shouldn't encourage people to > build drivers that do.
No. But you already limit yourself to the primary card, a new design shouldn't be limited that way. And an astonishingly big number of people have to rely on vesa fb, because driver development for their hardware sucks big time (no docs, no hardware in time, etc.). Currently AFAIK we don't allow changing the resolution here during runtime, I'd like to see a new framework being flexible enough with this respect. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R & D www.mshopf.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
