> > Well I have to disagree here.
>
> I figured you'd disagree; again, I'm biased, so I'll hold it to be
> a waste of both of our times to argue. If you get something worthwhile
> going, so much the better. I will be the first to fall down at worship at
> your feet for satiating the device-driver writers :)
:-). It's just that an OS without drivers (and hence without a disk or a
network connection), is pretty useless.
> > With regards to the VGA driver, I managed to get into VGA mode, but at
> > that point the screen stays blank and it never comes back. I copied the 6
> > asm methods from jjmachine* (If I remember), in8 in16 in32 out8 etc.
As far as I could tell the native code was only dependent on these 6, but
maybe it only failed to find another native method *after* it switched to
VGA mode (which makes me look stupid).
> Should have been more than 6, IIRC, but whatever. Have you tried
> the native-code equivalent program just to make it's not a problem with
> OSKit?
Urm, I don't quite understand. AFAIK you can't address the video memory
directly in Linux (even as root), am I wrong?
But with regards to the OSKit, I have no idea what it's doing before it
boots the VM, so it could be something there.
John Leuner
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