Re: Windows Assembly

Richard Cooper <spamandviruses@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Damn, reading about that I'd get the impression that Linux
> has excellent graphics support.

Where would you get this idea??? Linux is fundamentally
texed based Unix, and has some hardware support for X.
But X runs in _userland_, not kernel space.

> The closest they've come is someone made the kernel so that
> at bootup it'll make _one_ VESA call to switch to _one_
> graphics mode. Once it's in that mode, it stays in that
> mode forever.

Not quite. Have a look at svgalib or SVGATextMode.


> For some reason calling the VESA BIOS after boot is out of
> the question.

Natch! VESA BIOS is real-mode code, not pmode.

-- Robert

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