On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 14:36 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
Currently they don't use Ben's VGA arbiter which isn't ready yet. When finished these app will automatically be triggered on driver load as part of the hotplug process.
The source to vm86 is from the linux BIOS project where is has been worked on to make it substantially smaller. I like to keep everyone on the same source code base if possible.
Once we get these cleaned up and working I'm hoping to get them added to the klibc project. Once in klibc, klibc is schedule to go into the kernel sooner or later.
They are both partially working but fail part way through the posting process. I've been playing with them a couple of days and I can't figure out why they are failing. They are both failing for different reasons. Can anyone help?
Which version of x86emu are you using? The larger one from XF86 or the reduced version from Paulo?
I didn't follow the discussion on LKML about integrating the emulator, what was the conclusion. Got O.K. from Linus?