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From: Venkatesh Srinivas <me@acm.jhu.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:46:42 -0400
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver
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> mtrrs work on any number of processors.  it is plan 9's
> vesa which does not.

Is this just because the driver uses realmode()? Or is there something else?

To solve the realmode() problem, we could link rsc's 8i into the
kernel and use that to execute the vesa bios code, right?

-- vs