Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:22:14 +0300 From: Igor Pokrovsky <ip@doom.homeunix.org> To: FreeBSD-HACKERS <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Low level hardware access in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20050312182214.GA17032@doom.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <a8b8bb5105031210121791a9d5@mail.gmail.com> References: <a8b8bb5105031210121791a9d5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 06:12:19PM +0000, Alex Burke wrote: > Hi, > > I am just wondering how I can access either BIOS calls, or preferably > registers under FreeBSD? > > I am trying to write a simple system capable of displaying graphics on > the screen, and I am pretty sure I can mmap the VGA memory to my > programs address space. You'd better not try inventing the wheel. You can use already written libraries for that purpose - vgl(3) or graphics/svgalib for example. -ip -- If everybody doesn't want it, nobody gets it.
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