vgabios.c and vgachip.h removed

[Li-Ta Lo]

Hello,

Is there any one actually using the pc80/vgabios.c and pc80/vgachip.h?
The two files should not be in the pc80 directory because they have
too much via/epia dependence. I just removed these two files and
am working on porting the x86emu into LinuxBIOS.

Ollie

[Richard Smith]

--- Li-Ta Lo  wrote:
> am working on porting the x86emu into LinuxBIOS.

Ollie,

You need to join forces with some of the developers on
the framebuffer list.  About 2 months ago a developer
from SciTech Soft (Who wrote and maintains a good
portion of x86emu) posted to the framebuffer
describing their port of x86emu to the linux kernel
and asking if the community was interested in
including it into general distribution.

This of course spawned a large debate.  I'll spare you
the details.

The short of the matter is that somebody did a lot of
work on reducing the size of the emulator and made a
huge difference by refactoring the layering on how the
instructions are emulated.

So its probally worth your while to go read the
framebuffer list archives and see if anything else
happened on that and ask for a copy since it already
has things like stdlib dependence removed.

Since bitworks.com died I haven't signed back up to
all  the mailing lists.

If you can't find it let me know and I'll dig up the
people you need to contact.

Richard.

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[Yinghai Lu]

Ollie,

It seems that there some allocate resource for vga...stuff, and main focus
is to fix the mem io to some range and enable the io for vga.

For the first one, I suggest you to create one driver for the VGA device,
and it could override the read_resource of pci_read_resource to return fixed
mem resource.

Then the MB Config.lb could include the "driver ....."

Regards

YH

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Li-Ta Lo
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 1:14 PM
To: LinuxBIOS
Subject: vgabios.c and vgachip.h removed

Hello,

Is there any one actually using the pc80/vgabios.c and pc80/vgachip.h?
The two files should not be in the pc80 directory because they have
too much via/epia dependence. I just removed these two files and
am working on porting the x86emu into LinuxBIOS.

Ollie

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