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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue,  1 Mar 2011 19:30:05 -0500
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] realemu
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On Tue Mar  1 19:23:42 EST 2011, cinap_lenrek@gmx.de wrote:
> completed realmode emulator that is to be used with aux/vga -m vesa ...
> to enable the graphics card thru vesa bios in an attempt to make 8i
> work (thanks russ ;-)).
>
> tarball can be found in /n/sources/contrib/cinap_lenrek/realemu.tgz
>
> needs the patch /n/sources/patch/vesa-softscreen-resize applied as the
> vgavesa driver has to go thru the emulated /dev/realmode instead of
> the short path by calling realmode() directly.
>
> more details are in the notes file.
>
> there is a incomplete list of graphics cards this was tested on in the
> vgalist file included in the tarball.  (have like 5 working pci graphics
> cards here that i'm too lazy to hookup again to get the vid/did numbers)
>
> you might hit unimplemented instructions or code spinning in endless
> loops due to lack of proper system port emulation (i just return 0 on IN[BWL]
> instructions for restricted ports right now).

i'm sorry i've forgotten.  what's the problem with unemulated vesa?

- erik