On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 12:49:20PM +0200, Michal Januszewski wrote: > 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.
Have you considered using libx86[1] in v86d? It looks very similar to what you have at present and there are plans to extend it to non x86(_64) archs. J. [1] http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/libx86/ -- ] http://www.earth.li/~noodles/ [] noodles is criminal [ ] PGP/GPG Key @ the.earth.li [] [ ] via keyserver, web or email. [] [ ] RSA: 4DC4E7FD / DSA: 5B430367 [] [ - 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/