Hello, Vesa. Take your time and have fun.
2009/5/2 Vesa Jääskeläinen <ch...@nic.fi>
> Hi All,
>
> I will be absence from the project related work for a while... So please
> feel free to continue or replace the work that I may have got pending.
>
> Some tasks that could be done:
>
> - Video API: save/restore mode. Use "anonymous" data structure that only
> device driver itself understands. Having one common block that video
> subsystem understands and can choose proper video driver. Idea is to
> save mode and then execute something in different mode (Eg. test
> videomode) and then restore back to working one if it does not work.
>
> struct
> {
> // common part
> char *driver_name/id;
>
> // driver specific data
> char driver_specific[0];
> };
>
> - MM: improve allocation strategy to allocate from start or end of area.
> Add more memory areas to MM. Needed at least on x86 with Real Mode
> possibility (eg. PCBIOS in use). Need to have difference between lowmem
> (< 1MiB) vs. highmem. GRUB normal code/data should go to highmem. BIOS
> access data need to go to lowmem. OS kernel code probably should be
> loaded at begining on highmem.
>
I will do this. I know you already had some work for mm underway that's why
I wasn't doing it. Could you send what you already have even if it's far
from complete?
>
> Colin: Please feel free to integrate graphical menu change without my
> approval. If you feel unsure, please ask in mailing list.
>
> Can't remember anything else for this occasion what important would have
> been under the work.
Framebuffer/vbe split ;)
>
>
> I might read this mailing list occasionally, but don't be suppriced if I
> do not notice questions addressed to me.
>
> Thanks,
> Vesa Jääskeläinen
>
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