On Saturday 07 May 2005 09:24, Patrick McNamara wrote: > I don't like VGA registers either. Even less now that I've been > documenting what they actually do. Unfortunately, unless people only > want to use the card as a second head, we pretty much have to > implement some part of VGA. You have to have 640x480x4 available to > boot Windows. Very little text mode stuff actually uses INT10h to do > it's work. Most of it is done through direct access to display > memory. Yes, it sucks. Yes, I think we would all like to be able to > skip it. Unfortunately it's a necessary evil to build a card that > will work in most x86 systems.
Did you mean "most Windows systems"? I would not have any problem with the concept of delivering a logic upgrade to add Windows-bootability a few weeks after delivering a card configured for testing/development as a non-bootable or linux-bootable-only graphics card. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
