Dan Olson writes:
>
> > PS.
> > Has anyone written a GUI (X or not) that runs under ELKS?
> > I have a *tiny* VGA16 GUI function set with bitmapped fonts, written in
> > assembler for the 80186. (Part of an OS project called "Mooph OS" that I
> > had a year ago) -I am thinking about porting it for 8086 Linux, but
> > surely there must be better projects to waste my time with. If there's
> > any GUI at all for the ELKS, I'd like to know more about it. Please :)
> >
> Just a thought, how about porting Linux's VGAlib?
>
I think it would be more useful to have some kind of framebuffer device
to make sure that the hardware is dealt with cleanly, and then use the kmem
device to actually write to the framebuffer itself. A thin graphics library
could then be written on top of these drivers.
Al
