Re: VBE support for multiboot kernels

[Durand Miller]

Hi,

Okay, thanks.  It looks exactly the same except for the name of the call,
you actually get the PM interface location and the way you allocate memory
for the vesa information.  At least I know someone else had the same idea
even if I am several years late. :)

This is very useful to me so I've included the PM if stuff and memory
allocation function in my patch and I'm going to keep it current so that it
always applies to the CVS tree or latest version.

Thanks,
Durand.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: Adam Lackorzynski
To: Durand Miller
Cc: address@hidden
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 23:30
Subject: Re: VBE support for multiboot kernels


Hi,

On Sat Jan 03, 2004 at 00:59:07 +0200, Durand Miller wrote:
> For the last few months, I've been using a modified grub version to switch
> into vesa modes as part as my os development hobby.  Since getting this
kind
> of functionality required some coding and modification of grub, I'm pretty
> sure I'm part of a small handful of people which are actually using grub
> this way.  I was compiling my kernel with the height, width, depth, etc,

Just to mention it, we have this sort of VBE code in our public CVS for
some years now (http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/drops/download.html#whatsavail).
It's also in the patch I posted to list some time ago. So IMHO no need
to double any effort...



Adam
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