From: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah) Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products Date: 29 Sep 1992 19:08:44 GMT
terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
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: What it would require to run a VESA standard under UNIX:
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: 1) A virtual 8086 without Gate A20 Defeat to run the driver on behalf
: of a 386 virtual 8086 VESA interface driver.
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: 2) A message control mechanism for the virtual 8086 to driver interface.
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: 3) Pretend "interrupt driven" code for the "8086" to actually implement
: the BIOS calls for VESA.
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: Now this would be slow -- so slow, in fact, that standard VGA programming
: would probably be faster,...
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: Terry Lambert
QUICK, everyone, rewrite your cards register-compatible with
8514 !!!
-Ade.
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