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[9fans] in general, you cannot debug vesa bios...
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c***@gmx.de
2013-01-06 21:17:54 UTC
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but sometimes you can:

http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/issues/detail?id=163&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary%20Subsystem

i would like to ask if it would be worthwile to make
aux/vga able patch the bios using /lib/vgadb. this
can be sometimes usefull to add additional modes that
would otherwise be unaccessible. in this particular
case a internal table in the vesa bios had a wrong
entry for an offered mode.

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cinap
Bence Fábián
2013-01-06 21:27:03 UTC
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nice job!
Post by c***@gmx.de
http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/issues/detail?id=163&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary%20Subsystem
i would like to ask if it would be worthwile to make
aux/vga able patch the bios using /lib/vgadb. this
can be sometimes usefull to add additional modes that
would otherwise be unaccessible. in this particular
case a internal table in the vesa bios had a wrong
entry for an offered mode.
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cinap
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