Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Finding Aki M Laukkanen's VESAFBD project?

[Antonino D. <ad...@po...>]

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 02:22, Kendall Bennett wrote:

> The other option is to use the x86emu BIOS emulator project. Then you 
> don't need to do any of this stuff and instead can warm boot all the 
> graphics controllers using the BIOS from the card (see the sample 
> 'warmboot' program included in the source code archives). The code is 
> presently 32-bit specific I believe, so you would have two choices for 
> running this from real mode - port the code to a 16-bit C compiler or 
> port it to run in 32-bit real mode. I assume you are probably thinking of 
> during the boot phase of GRUB or LILO, so at that point you will have 
> full control and should be able to execute 32-bit real mode code. You may 

Interesting, an x86 emulator while in real mode...  This is probably
worth a try.  Thanks.

Tony