From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200310030917.h939H9sI049991@SIGBUS.nove.bg> From: Atanas Bachvaroff Subject: Re: [9fans] ati radeon support To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu In-Reply-To: <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE479C7A@black.aprote.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; BOUNDARY="0-424238335-1065172633=:42213" Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:17:03 +0300 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c1a15ae-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 --0-424238335-1065172633=:42213 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii On 3 Oct, Tiit Lankots wrote: > No wonder nobody has written a VESA driver -- VESA is loathsome. > You only have a 64K (or maybe even less) sliding window into the > framebuffer; to do any real work you need to regularly engage in > "bank switching", which is *slow*. > > Not to mention all the real-mode 16-bit interupt goo. Yuck. > there is VESA32 standard with 32bit entries and linear framebuffer, but I don't know how many cards support that thing... -- BEATVSHOMOQVIINVENITSAPIENTIAMETQVIAFFLVITPRVDENTIALIVRILVCIFERIVS --0-424238335-1065172633=:42213 Content-Type: APPLICATION/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: t4mIl+e30/rSJmVwy9xh3he4Aswqm1eA iQA/AwUAP30+lNBNHei75lHEEQJQpQCfRgrhuyjtwkipcAbaofk9WXBcqh4AoJyW fVU02u1ikul3WoQ4TuySbU5Z =cyHQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0-424238335-1065172633=:42213--