[ANNOUNCE] vesafb full VBE 2.0 support

[Jeff Garzik]

Kendall Bennett wrote:
> I thought there was another guy who developed a kenel module that
> uses the vm86 stuff internally in the kernel to communiate with the
> VBE 2.0/3.0 BIOS without needing a user space daemon? Is there some
> limitation on using the vm86 services in the kernel from another part
> of the kernel directly (as opposed to from a user space app)?

Userspace cannot provide boot/graphical console support until you get a
couple runlevels into the boot process...

Regards,

	Jeff



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