uvesafb is a generic driver for VBE2+ compliant video cards; an enhanced version of vesafb and a direct successor of vesafb-tng [1].
uvesafb uses a userspace helper application (v86d, [2]) to run the x86 Video BIOS code. This makes it possible to include in uvesafb all the standard features (refresh rate control, video mode changes etc) that are missing from vesafb without resorting to ugly hacks such as the ones used in [1]. The current implementation of v86d can use either LRMI or x86emu to run the BIOS code and supports both x86 and x86_64. [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/ [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ Best regards. -- Michal Januszewski JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux Developer http://people.gentoo.org/spock - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
