At Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:37:29 +0100, Alexander Thiel wrote: > as the latest version of GRUB did not support VBE graphics as decribed in the > multiboot specification, but I wanted it for my own toy kernel, I have added > it myself. I could not find any hint about ongoing work for VBE support in > the mailing list archive, so I decided to post my patch (against grub-0.90). > It moves some existing code around and adds some new chunks. Here is a > summary of the changes:
Thanks for your contribution very much! Could you write ChangeLog entries, as descibed in the GNU Coding Standards? > As of yet, there is only the default text mode supported, and the info on the > protected mode interface is not available. I am also thinking about adding a > builtin function 'setvbe' to explicitly set the mode passed to the kernel. Agreed. I think "videomode" would be more appropriate, since we may add support for other modes than VBE later. Okuji _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
