From: "Tiit Lankots" <t.lankots@aprote.ee>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] ati radeon support
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:07:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE479C7A@black.aprote.com> (raw)
> A single VESA driver would have
>prevented having to keep hacking drivers for each new card.
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.
next reply other threads:[~2003-10-03 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-03 9:07 Tiit Lankots [this message]
2003-10-03 9:17 ` Atanas Bachvaroff
2003-10-03 9:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-03 11:42 ` C H Forsyth
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-01 21:23 Hugo Santos
2003-10-01 22:01 ` mirtchov
2003-10-02 0:55 ` okamoto
2003-10-02 8:11 ` Christian Grothaus
2003-10-02 8:31 ` Christian Grothaus
2003-10-02 18:56 ` Hugo Santos
2003-10-02 19:07 ` mirtchov
2003-10-03 8:43 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-03 12:53 ` paurea
2003-10-03 13:12 ` rog
2003-10-03 13:16 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-03 14:34 ` jmk
2003-10-03 14:46 ` rog
2003-10-03 17:59 ` C H Forsyth
2003-10-03 18:28 ` jmk
2003-10-03 19:22 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-03 23:41 ` Charles Forsyth
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