From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: C H Forsyth To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ati radeon support In-Reply-To: <0a5ffa61e305f29dcebbe41d2dde451f@caldo.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-xlxtcmsmnfjabmfpbfkgjbmfzt" Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:42:04 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c26d690-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-xlxtcmsmnfjabmfpbfkgjbmfzt Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i've put it in http://www.vitanuova.com/dist/vesa.tgz --upas-xlxtcmsmnfjabmfpbfkgjbmfzt Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from punt-3.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@vitanuova.com id 1A5MEj-0004Rc-7O; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 09:31:05 +0000 Received: from [130.203.4.6] (helo=mail.cse.psu.edu) by punt-3.mail.demon.net with esmtp id 1A5MEj-0004Rc-7O; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 09:28:33 +0000 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 067DB19BFE; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 05:28:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.30.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 4730019BEE; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 05:28:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id D4EA319BC2; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 05:27:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lavoro.home.cs.york.ac.uk (public1-york1-5-cust44.leed.broadband.ntl.com [80.0.45.44]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id D227A19BE6 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 05:27:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <0a5ffa61e305f29dcebbe41d2dde451f@caldo.demon.co.uk> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ati radeon support From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: <200310030917.h939H9sI049991@SIGBUS.nove.bg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:27:11 +0100 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) >>there is VESA32 standard with 32bit entries and linear framebuffer, but >>I don't know how many cards support that thing... roger used 16-bit mode in the bootstrap to set up a linear framebuffer because nothing much actually supported the 32-bit mode, even if you could trust the BIOS not to do something silly. it might have changed. i was going to tar up his code and put it on a web site, once i'd located the pieces again, in case anyone was sufficiently keen. --upas-xlxtcmsmnfjabmfpbfkgjbmfzt--