Re: [B2-devel] Re: [Basilisk-cvs] BasiliskII/src/Unix video_x.cpp

[Christian B. <cb...@st...>]

Hi!

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:44:38AM +0200, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
> That's nice, 0.9.1 is showing up ? ;-)

Rather 1.0 :-)

> - What are we supposed to return when we can't change resolution/depth
> (memory re-allocation error, failure in DGA vidmode switching, etc.) ?

You are supposed to crash. :-)

The MacOS Display Manager was obviously designed for interfacing with
video _hardware_ and it assumes that when a mode is supported, it can be
switched to. Since no return value is being checked, there is no point
in providing one.

> - In direct addressing, we used to determine the base address of the Mac
> framebuffer from the host address. Does your infrastructure permit
> dynamic relocation of the Mac frame buffer ?

Yes, this should work.

Bye,
Christian

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