> P.S
> Things I like to get done for the vga16fb driver.
>
> 1) Its own read and write functions to fake a linear framebuffer.
Should be doable with fb_write and fb_read, but with mmap, the app still
needs to know the VGA format.
> 2) The ability to go back to vga text mode on close of /dev/fb.
> Yes fbdev/fbcon supports that now.
I'll take a stab at writing VGA save/restore routines which hopefully is
generic enough to be used by various hardware. No promises though, VGA
programming gives me a headache :(
Tony
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