Hi, About a week ago, I was shown the vbe part of the Multiboot specification. Browsing through the code, I saw that the vbe flags are mostly ignored and the features not implemented. I also noticed that one of the bugs (bug #510) noted on the grub website include a "Reconsider the VBE support".
Part of my interest in this has to do with the fact that I have operating system development as one of my hobbies and the vbe support of grub would help me out quite a lot. I'm not alone in this though; there are many new people who get stuck on the vesa support when messing around with os dev. However, I don't think this feature will have much support outside of hobbiest developing since all major os's have graphics drivers already and I think this absence of need has caused this feature to be put aside for a while. So what I've done is add two more functions to builtins.c and modified the boot procedure to check to for vbe request in the multiboot header, set the correct or close-enough mode and pass this information along in the multiboot information structure. It all works and it's only a few lines of code. I just wanted to know if there is any point in submitting a patch if the VBE support is possibly going to change. I would also be interested in working further on this... Durand Miller _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
