[SeaBIOS] [PATCH RFC 0/7] VGA ROM improvements

Julian Pidancet julian.pidancet at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 13:42:10 CET 2012


On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net> wrote:
> I'm not sure which scheme makes the most sense.  I could see using the
> "cirrus" scheme - each hardware type defines its own "handle_10" and
> "vga_post" in a file dedicated to that hardware, which then check for
> hardware specific functions and call "library" code for the standard
> stuff.  However, I'm not sure how much code duplication there would be
> for things like the VBE calls which seem to contain a mix of standard
> info and hardware specific info.
>

Happy new year,

I havn't studied the cirrus code yet, but the part which implements
the VBE interface should be quite simillar from one driver to another,
so I don't think it is necessary to let every hardware type redefine
its own int10 handler, at least for the vesa part.

Julian.



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