Re: [ANNOUNCE] vesafb full VBE 2.0 support

From: Kendall Bennett (KendallB@scitechsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jan 22 2000 - 17:07:05 EST


Aki M Laukkanen <amlaukka@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote:

> Patch to vesafb adds support for communicating with a user-space
> daemon. This user-space daemon uses the LRMI library by Josh
> Vanderhoof (need his e-mail) to call real-mode VBE 2.0 functions to
> set the mode, pan the display and perform other framebuffer
> functions. Thanks to Alan Cox for the idea and mailing the LRMI
> library.

I thought there was another guy who developed a kenel module that
uses the vm86 stuff internally in the kernel to communiate with the
VBE 2.0/3.0 BIOS without needing a user space daemon? Is there some
limitation on using the vm86 services in the kernel from another part
of the kernel directly (as opposed to from a user space app)?

Regards,

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