Subject: Re: First snapshot of graphics mode console driver available
To: NetBSD Kernel Technical Discussion List <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/28/2001 09:31:22
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:32:55AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Sunday, January 28, 2001 at 01:43:20 (+0900), Bang Jun-Young wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: First snapshot of graphics mode console driver available
> >
> > It can be faster if i386 specific optimization is used (at the cost of
> > portability, though). Has anybody tried this on non-x86 platform which 
> > has VGA compatible display hardware?
> 
> Any chance this is going to be portable enough for non-x86, non-VGA
> hardware too (eg. the average sparcstation framebuffer?)....

Hm, don't the non-x86 nonVGA machines use something like this already? Of 
course, Sparc might use openfirmware calls instead...

Regards,
	-is