Paging Beth Stone (was: 'Re: Windows Assembly')


On 2005-09-14 spamandviruses@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:

> Annie wrote:
>
> > Seems like you SHOULD be able to switch the processor into
> > Virtual-86 mode, do your video-mode manipulations, and then
> > switch back to protected mode.
>
> Yes, it's possible, but Linux is one undocumented little ***.
> I was going to do that, since that would give me any mode I wanted
> under any possible circumstance, but I couldn't find the details of
> the vm86 system call anywhere. In fact, if I found the necessary
> details, I'd give up this Windows *** right this second. Doing
> the VESA via VM86 thing would be a bit of a bitch, but the reason I
> gave up on Linux was because what I wanted wasn't possible, not
> because it was difficult.
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You may have come to the right ((( `\
place. The LuxASM development _ _`\ )
team (LuxASM is a forthcoming (^ ) )
specific assembler for Linux) ~-( )
hangs out in this newsgroup. _'((,,,)))
,-' \_/ `\
Beth Stone, one of the team ( , |
members, made it her project `-.-'`-.-'/|_|
to document all of the Linux \ / | |
system calls. =()=: / ,' aa

HEY BETH! Help this guy out,
won't you?



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