Re: Kernel video driver (was: Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static)

2002-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
I'd like to note that this discussion should probably be moved to bug-hurd, as that's the appropriate list. Daniel Borgmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 12:31, Wolfgang Jährling wrote: > > I don't think it should be a pipe. It should make it possible for > > applications to

Re: Kernel video driver (was: Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static)

2002-06-17 Thread Niels Möller
Daniel Borgmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That sounds like a good plan. Any thoughts how this should work in > detail? I mean, should the translator just be something like a "pipe" to > the video memory or should it already provide drawing functions? One could start with saying that it should

Re: Kernel video driver (was: Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static)

2002-06-17 Thread Daniel Borgmann
On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 12:31, Wolfgang Jährling wrote: > > I mean, should the translator just be something like a "pipe" to > > the video memory or should it already provide drawing functions? Should > > it allow access from every application? > > I don't think it should be a pipe. It should make

Re: Kernel video driver (was: Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static)

2002-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Daniel Borgmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That sounds like a good plan. It is our plan, so obviously it must be good. ;-) > I mean, should the translator just be something like a "pipe" to > the video memory or should it already provide drawing functions? Should > it allow access from every ap

Re: Kernel video driver (was: Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static)

2002-06-17 Thread Daniel Borgmann
On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 09:42, Niels Möller wrote: > > The idea seems to be to use memory mapping and a translator so > > applications can just write to this translator to access the video > > memory. The kernel would than directly talk to the > > hardware, for example through a VESA driver. Is that

Re: Kernel video driver (was: Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static)

2002-06-17 Thread Niels Möller
Daniel Borgmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The idea seems to be to use memory mapping and a translator so > applications can just write to this translator to access the video > memory. The kernel would than directly talk to the > hardware, for example through a VESA driver. Is that correct? Mo

Kernel video driver (was: Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static)

2002-06-16 Thread Daniel Borgmann
Hi Marcus, Sunday, June 16, 2002, 6:14:30 PM, you wrote: >> kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s2 >> -T typed ${root} MB> Shouldn't this be "root=device:hd0s@" because of the "typed"? This works, great! Hm, just looked at the installation guide and it also says device:hd0sx... Don't know