Re: console plans

[Diego Roversi]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:20:42PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

Hello,

  just my 2c tips:

> The output half is similar.  The only driver initially will be a standard
> VGA driver (Super VGA might be an option for later).  I have found some
> documentation on VGA cards (FreeVGA Project), and we will do all the VGA
> card programming in user space.  So we just map the VGA card memory and
> program it's I/O ports.  This allows us to implement Text mode switching
> (more interesting for SuperVGA, I am afraid), Font loading, and other
> interesting stuff like that.

Have you take a look to SuperVGATextMode? It is a nice program for linux,
that can change text mode programming the VGA. You probably find a lot of
information about programming text mode for VGA & superVGA.


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