On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 02:54:28PM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
>
> Well, we could do this, but I don't really like the idea of making
> framebuffer address and bytes_per_scan line parts of the generic video
> API.
>
> I think it would be OK to make these data accessible as an optional
> feature
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:44:59PM +0100, phcoder wrote:
> Hello. First of all some good news: I managed to boot xnu kernel. To do
> so I need to set it to video mode and pass video mode info to kernel.
> Now I do it in adapter-specific way which is bad and ugly. So I would
> like to propose an
Colin D Bennett wrote:
feature. That is, potentially future video drivers might not use a
framebuffer. (OpenGL driver? :-)
In this context I would think more about X11 or vnc driver
> The VBE driver can return the
framebuffer address, but if another driver can't provide it, then maybe
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On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:44:59 +0100
phcoder wrote:
> Hello. First of all some good news: I managed to boot xnu kernel. To do
> so I need to set it to video mode and pass video mode info to kernel.
> Now I do it in adapter-specific way which is bad and ugly. So I would
> like to propose an inter