Re: [PATCH 0/4] fbdev: uvesafb

2007-06-30 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:42:41AM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > Have you considered using libx86[1] in v86d? It looks very similar to > what you have at present and there are plans to extend it to non > x86(_64) archs. It looks like an interesting solution and it is indeed similar to what I'

Re: [PATCH 0/4] fbdev: uvesafb

2007-06-26 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 12:49:20PM +0200, Michal Januszewski wrote: > uvesafb is a generic driver for VBE2+ compliant video cards; an enhanced > version of vesafb and a direct successor of vesafb-tng [1]. > > uvesafb uses a userspace helper application (v86d, [2]) to run the x86 > Video BIOS code.

Re: [PATCH 0/4] fbdev: uvesafb

2007-06-23 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 02:04:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 23 June 2007, Michal Januszewski wrote: > >  The current implementation of v86d can use either LRMI or > > x86emu to run the BIOS code and supports both x86 and x86_64. > > Is there a fundamental reason why you can't also

Re: [PATCH 0/4] fbdev: uvesafb

2007-06-23 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 23 June 2007, Michal Januszewski wrote: >  The current implementation of v86d can use either LRMI or > x86emu to run the BIOS code and supports both x86 and x86_64. Is there a fundamental reason why you can't also run it on non-x86 machines, or has this simply not been tested so far?