Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 00:29:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: kern_mib.c:int securelevel = -1; Message-ID: <199608102229.AAA00688@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199608102005.GAA07178@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Aug 11, 96 06:05:04 am"
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > >Plain (banked) VGA probably works, since it only needs to mmap() the > >standard frame buffer where syscons or pcvt do already know about its > >location. > > This mapping should be provided by the driver in all cases. It's > much easier to provide... It's not so easy to provide since: 0) the graphics console drivers are too dumb to know about the details of their devices, so they have no idea where the frame buffer actually is. This is the usual ``the DDX layer should actually be in the kernel'' problem. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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