On Tuesday 13 November 2001 17:45, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> 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
>

Ok, no problem. Would you prefer a patch against the CVS version?

Alex

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