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| 15 | for <smc.collins@comcast.net>; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:18:30 +0100 (CET)
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| 16 | Message-ID: <4D43DB59.60309@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
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| 17 | Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:18:17 +0100
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| 18 | From: Michael Noisternig <mnoist@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
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| 19 | User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7
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| 20 | MIME-Version: 1.0
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| 21 | To: Sean Collins <smc.collins@comcast.net>
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| 22 | Subject: Re: VBE 3.0 drvier for NewOS
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| 23 | References: <80710118-BeMail@shredder>
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| 24 | In-Reply-To: <80710118-BeMail@shredder>
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| 28 | That's absolutely fine with me!
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| 29 |
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| 30 | Michael
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| 31 |
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| 32 | Am 28.01.2011 21:27, schrieb Sean Collins:
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| 33 | >
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| 34 | >
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| 35 | > Are you ok with me posting this to the trunk and trac on the Haiku
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| 36 | > website ?
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| 37 | >
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| 38 | > I just wanted your approval first. I will make sure you get credited
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| 39 | > !
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| 40 | >
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| 41 | > Sean
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| 42 | >
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| 43 | >> Hi Paulo and Sean,
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| 44 | >>
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| 45 | >> I'll respond to you jointly as you have both asked for source code of
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| 46 | >> my
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| 47 | >> VESA VBE 3.0 driver.
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| 48 | >>
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| 49 | >> I'm no longer involved in Haiku/OpenBeOS or NewOS development for a
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| 50 | >> long
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| 51 | >> time now, for various reasons. I did hack a working and very fast
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| 52 | >> server-client GUI back then (just try in Qemu ;)), including VBE 3.0
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| 53 | >> support, TTY support, various GNU utilities including bash etc..
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| 54 | >> Pretty
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| 55 | >> nice, but no time. So the VBE driver is also incomplete though the
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| 56 | >> gist
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| 57 | >> of it should be working. Which means that if you can switch modes it
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| 58 | >> should be rather easy for you to implement other functions supported
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| 59 | >> by
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| 60 | >> the VBE 3.0 standard. I added some nifty hacks to support ATI cards
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| 61 | >> and
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| 62 | >> also some broken NVidia reference implementation, though the latter
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| 63 | >> shouldn't be around anymore.
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| 64 | >>
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| 65 | >> I'll forward you the source code as is. You should be able to find
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| 66 | >> the
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| 67 | >> VBE documentation on the web assuming you don't have it already.
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| 68 | >>
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| 69 | >> You'll also required x86-architecture-specific selector support in
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| 70 | >> the
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| 71 | >> kernel. I'll forward you the sources as well, though they are also in
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| 72 | >> the official NewOS kernel.
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| 73 | >>
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| 74 | >> Good luck,
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| 75 | >>
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| 76 | >> Michael
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| 77 | >>
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| 78 | >> Am 26.01.2011 02:03, schrieb Paulo Estrela:
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| 79 | >>> Hi Michael,
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| 80 | >>>
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| 81 | >>> Do you still have the sources for your VBE 3.0 driver for NewOS? I
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| 82 | >>> would
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| 83 | >>> like to try to port it to Haiku. I have a Geforce 310M that doesn't
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| 84 | >>> have
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| 85 | >>> a driver for Haiku, and I would like to try to write a vbe 3.0
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| 86 | >>> driver
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| 87 | >>> that runs from protected mode not using vmm86. I didn't find any
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| 88 | >>> examples of how to do this on Internet.
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| 89 | >>>
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| 90 | >>> Thank you,
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| 91 | >>>
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| 92 | >>> Paulo Estrela
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