On 5/7/05, Luc Verhaegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Breaking this thread, sorry, don't have the original message anymore. > > Why is there a need to mimic vga registers? Surely all there needs to be > is handling of int10 calls (maybe with a portion of vbe) for textmode > and basic initial graphics modes to satisfy x86 bioses and the windows > rescue system. If this requires lying about pci class to trick x86 > bioses into running the bios, then do so (as long as there is a way to > "fix" this). > > I personally don't enjoy vga registers, apart from the semi standard it > tends to be. I think that most people would prefer a clean and > extendable (not scattering bits around like with vga) set of registers > in a pci io range. The fact that this device should be open largely > removes the necessity to try to comply to the basic VGA "standard". >
I've tried it before. Too many things, including the BIOS screen, DOS, Windows, and even Linux talk to the hardware directly, expecting it to behave as expected. Very little really uses int10, it seems. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
