Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:19:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.org, dfr@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/isa scvidctl.c videoio.c videoio.h syscons.c syscons.h src/sys/alpha/conf files.alpha src/sys/al Message-ID: <199809171119.NAA06195@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809171106010.392-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Sep 17, 98 11:10:44 am"
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In reply to Doug Rabson who wrote:
>
> Actually I think I could get VESA working on the alpha by using some kind
> of x86 emulator to run the BIOS. That is what the firmware does when it
> boots and Linux has some code. Sounds like a lot of work though.
Yeah, and icky at best.
> I had to merge the headers since the new vidcontrol wouldn't build and I
> decided to merge the rest to try and keep the alpha version from diverging
> too much and making life even more difficult when we try and produce a
> unified console.
OK, I have to get the bugs in the new code shaken out first, including
the savers, then lets find a way to unify the beasts...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
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