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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] What are the steps to add new video drivers?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:58:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010330165851.6131E19A09@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

I should say that the kernel stub driver, once you have the linear mapping
done for whatever memory spaces the card needs, usually doesn't need to be changed
until you get to writing the hardware cursor code, and that's the last part of
writing a Plan 9 video driver.

--jim


             reply	other threads:[~2001-03-30 16:58 UTC|newest]

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2001-03-30 16:58 jmk [this message]
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2001-03-30 16:52 jmk
2001-03-30 16:12 forsyth
2001-03-30 14:18 jmk
2001-03-30 14:46 ` Mike Acar
2001-03-30  8:37 Richard Greenblott

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