[haiku-development] Re: Makeshift patch for PPC

"Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > has to be worked around still). I also removed vesa from the PPC
> > image, as the vm86 changes clearly make it somewhat x86-specific now.
>
> Yeah, that will have to be changed again, as the VESA driver is needed
> at the minimum. Well, maybe we could create an OpenFirmware driver for
> PPC, but we'll probably going to need the same mechanism in "Screen" as
> before on x86 -- I must admit I completely forgot about that when I
> applied Jan's changes.

Oops. Quite frankly I was well aware that I introduced this dependency with my 
patches. But as the VESA VBE is x86 specific by definition I didn't care 
much. I assumed that it's built on x86 only but that doesn't seem to be the 
case...

/Jan

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