Re: console plans

[Niels Möller]

Sounds cool.

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> 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.

Do you have a plan for how to coordinate access to the hardware with
other programs, like framebuffers and X?

To me, it would make some sense to use a separate device-like
translator for representing the vga hardware. At the very least, it
would need to keep enough knowledge of what people are doing with it
so that it, at any time, can restore the hardware to a sane state. It
might also be desirable to put the hardware banging in a separate
program, just for limiting the amount of code that needs to run with
privileges.

Regards,
/Niels