On Sat, 09 Jun 2001 04:34:47 -0700, Willow Schlanger wrote:
>First we'll add VESA VBE 2.0 support via the BIOS. This will get SVGA
>working under the QNX boot disk.
>Now I recommend that we _FIRST_ not emulate any chipset since we'll need
>to have VESA support anyways and since the VESA support would just be
>telling the chipset emulator what to do; initially let's skip chipset
>emulation and directly hook the video interrupt.
Sounds like a clean and elegant solution. A side benefit: a lot of
minor OS's (QNX and OS/2 come to mind) have VBE video drivers. It's a
cheap way for them to get the maximum number of compatible video
chipsets. Why not take advantage of it?
Of course, it just postpones the inevitable, but why not? :)
Tim Massey
