Hi Wolf,

On 05/03/2013 04:35 AM, Wolf Ramovsky wrote:
> During preparation I made some steps to port software to execute BIOS
> real-mode code from user space. At first, I tried library from
> http://gitorious.org/x86emu. I've ported library succesfully and was
> able to get VESA modes, but can't set. Later it become clear that was
> my mistake: I've sent reference to pio_write_ instead of value. But at
> first I blamed library and tried to use the other one, from NetBSD.
> Finding out the reason of setmode failing, I've decided to stay with
> *BSD's library because of its simplicity and more fine-grained
> controllability. The library from the link above is a bit
> overbloated...
> 
> So, I decided to share my results. Of course, this is far from video
> driver, but I hope it'll be helpful.

Thanks for this contribution. I am not, however, sure, how much was
ticket #520 meant to be implemented via calls to real-mode BIOS. Can
there be actually a native driver?

Jakub

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