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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: V86 mode & the BIOS (was Need advice: Which OS to port to?) Message-ID: <hastyCBMB3K.JBG@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <245jrfINNrc0@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <hastyCBLnIF.Cyq@netcom.com> <1993Aug11.164429.6015@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 23:11:43 GMT Lines: 35 In article <1993Aug11.164429.6015@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >In article <hastyCBLnIF.Cyq@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >>I am very interested on having a dosemu box for 386bsd. I am tired of >>initializing S3 cards and extracting the info from S3 like if I was >>a dentist pulling a teeth out of a patient not under anestesia. >> >>However, this approach of i/o bitmap permission is not adequate for >>S3 cards or 8514/a cards. the cards have a sparse i/o range. The highest >>address is 0xe2e8 or there abouts. > >I am concerned about the use of a VM86 to do S3 card initialization. What >happens when I take the same card and put it in a machine where a VM86 is >either not possible or requires writing an entire hardware emulation? > YOU LOSE!!!! Let me make this very clear and loud initializing some of the new advanced graphic cards are difficult to initialize . Another way of stating it, is that you are asking for sweat equity on the part of the 386bsd developers. Certain manufacturers, such as Diamond do not publish publicly their initialization routines. for those cases users lose, or may have to resort to shady methods to initialize their cards which outright are in the border of being illegal Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming