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Re: [PATCH] VBE support


From: Yoshinori K. Okuji
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VBE support
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 01:45:39 +0900
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At Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:37:29 +0100,
Alexander Thiel wrote:
> as the latest version of GRUB did not support VBE graphics as decribed in the 
> multiboot specification, but I wanted it for my own toy kernel, I have added 
> it myself. I could not find any hint about ongoing work for VBE support in 
> the mailing list archive, so I decided to post my patch (against grub-0.90).
> It moves some existing code around and adds some new chunks. Here is a 
> summary of the changes:

Thanks for your contribution very much! Could you write ChangeLog
entries, as descibed in the GNU Coding Standards?

> As of yet, there is only the default text mode supported, and the info on the 
> protected mode interface is not available. I am also thinking about adding a 
> builtin function 'setvbe' to explicitly set the mode passed to the kernel.

Agreed. I think "videomode" would be more appropriate, since we may
add support for other modes than VBE later.

Okuji



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