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From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Vesa support revisited
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:17:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a050821131731489642@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32a656c205081506346b9daf22@mail.gmail.com>

> How is vesa support coming along in Plan 9? Is there a major setback anywhere?
> Just curious.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 12, 2005 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>


> Yeah, please include the vesa driver asap into the official ISO. Many
> interested people won't drop their attempts to get in touch with rio
> after booting into text mode and nothing works...

It will be done as soon as possible, but not for a few months.
In the fall I am going to slowly merge in the changes in
/n/sources/contrib/rsc, one by one, with sufficient testing
periods inbetween to isolate problems.  Things beside vesa
are different in that code, and some of those things break
existing card support.

...


      reply	other threads:[~2005-08-21 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-15 13:34 Vester Thacker
2005-08-21 20:17 ` Russ Cox [this message]

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