Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] The future of framebuffer

[Romain D. <do...@ir...>]

Nick Kurshev wrote:

> These things could be handled by vesafb which can't be compiled as module.
> AFAIK VBE3.0 already have standardized such things as DGA, video extensions
> and even audio interface. Althrough exist cards which don't support VESA
> but such cards may not support graphics modes too.

Nope. All video card on Mac (m68k or PPC) are purely graphics
(no text mode), and none of them support directly VGA/VESA/
whatever from the x86 world. I'm sure there's similar
situation on other architecture.

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