[haiku-development] Re: Virtual 8086 mode support

Am Samstag, 19. April 2008 schrieb Gerald Zajac:
> When this is complete, will other video drivers in addition to the VESA
> driver also be able to access the VESA bios to change resolutions?
> Since the S3 Savage MX chip gives me problems when changing the
> resolution by manipulating the video registers, it is very possible that
> being able to use the bios might make it work better since the X.org
> driver code has a comment stating that the bios is a better method of
> changing the resolution for some Savage chips.

In principle it could be used to call any BIOS function/interrupt (when it's 
finished). Looks like it should be provided as library or in the common 
accelerant code and not only to the VESA driver.

/Jan

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