Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 6/20/06, Antonino A. Daplas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> No it can't. Once the card is in graphics mode, vgacon cannot go to
>> text mode on its own. It has to know how to write to other VGA
>> registers which are unique per hardware.
>
> Might be a good place for a little call_usermodehelper example. VGAcon
> could try calling vbetool to save it's state and restore it. GregKH
> told me that the class firmware loader code was the place to start.
>
Yes, that's part of the plan. I'm still looking for the best inteface
to do that. It must be a 2-way inteface, ie, kernel->user and user->kernel.
Does the firmware loader code satisfy the above condition?
Tony
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