From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263590AbTH1RI5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:08:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264069AbTH1RI5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:08:57 -0400 Received: from hermes.py.intel.com ([146.152.216.3]:36085 "EHLO hermes.py.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263590AbTH1RIz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:08:55 -0400 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 Subject: RE: KDB in the mainstream 2.4.x kernels? Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:08:50 -0700 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: KDB in the mainstream 2.4.x kernels? Thread-Index: AcNso4GNVnlA1tqdR9m/on6MzwMzdQA4zthQ From: "Tolentino, Matthew E" To: "Alan Cox" , "Andi Kleen" Cc: "Greg Stark" , "Martin Pool" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Aug 2003 17:08:50.0676 (UTC) FILETIME=[0D3F2340:01C36D87] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Llu, 2003-08-25 at 17:23, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > instructions as a forth program that frobbed registers > appropriately. The > > > kernel would have a small forth interpretor to run it. > Then switching > > > resolutions could happen safely in the kernel. > > > > Did the proposal come with working code? > > I've seen workable non forth versions of the proposal yes. It isnt > actually that hard to do for most video cards Interesting. So did the interpreted forth (or other) program then interact with the VGA BIOS or was it more generic? matt