Vesa Jääskeläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Vesa,
> I have been making video driver for VBE and currently at beginning of > that file there are codes for those VBE helpers defined in > (include/grub/i386/pc/vbe.h). As I had some issues with mixing them with > each other I renamed all kernel stubs like from grub_vbe_* to > grub_vbe_bios_* so they cannot be easily mixed. > > I was thinking that is there a still need to have those helper functions > at all there? If they will be there I will use them from driver code, if > not, I will integrate the functionality to driver code. By integrating > the code to driver it would make that driver file more easier to read, > but then we lose option to use those helpers directly. One option is to > move them elsewhere, but then there is a problem what is the module name > and where. So what you have now is some VBE functions and a video driver and you are wondering if they should be merged? I think that shouldn't be done because multiboot should also use VBE to switch video modes. > I will update shortly (tomorrow most likely) wiki with results of the > newest API design round. After I think it is correct I will concentrate > on enhancing the terminal code to make use of newly added functionality. Cool! Thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
