Peter Jones wrote:
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 09:09 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
For the short term, it would be nice if someone were to
reimplement ddc-probe to use x86emu or some other emulator
so that VBE could be used uniformly on all architectures
at least. That would give reasonable consistency between
architectures even if it wasn't as complete as what the X
server has built in.
A better plan might be to make the X server's probe routines into their
own DSO, so when other programs need to do this sort of thing, they can
use the code which gets the most exposure ;)
X.Org accepts new developers rather openly. Feel free to subscribe
to xorg-arch@xxxxxxxxxxx with a strawman proposal and plan for
implementing this, and see if it catches interest. If people
believe that is the way to go, then all it takes is someone to
take charge of moving it forward, and someone to write the code.