Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:31:20 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: VESA Free standards Message-ID: <200704250831.20752.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <882430.74309.qm@web32712.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <882430.74309.qm@web32712.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Wednesday 25 April 2007 02:27, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi; > > I noticed there is a nice set of VESA standards freely available by filling > the form in: > > http://www.vesa.org/Standards/free.htm > > Of course the Wikipedia also includes a description of the interesting > ones: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions > > I am not sure if FreeBSD's vesa driver supports the full 3.0 specification > but it would be really nice to newbussify it and perhaps add a new driver > for the VESA Audio Interface standard. Any takers? I think it is better to have the source code of HW, than using a BIOS driver. What if the BIOS code is overridden by a boot-sector virus. Then you keep the virus alive by using this BIOS code. Just a thought though. --HPS
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