From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: FreeVBE ?
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 19:30:50 +0000
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Bjorn De Meyer writes:
>This sounds very interesting indeed. I might be interested to implement
>the hardware specific stuff for me own cyrrus graphic card 

Great! Ove Kaaven has expressed some interest in looking into the
linker/output format issue, and assuming he can get that sorted I will
have a go at making an actual /AF driver. I'll announce it here as soon
as I have something useful, at which point the more people who can
modify it to support their particular cards, the better!

>> I have no idea how to implement this in djgpp: possibly some tweaking of
>> the linker script, or perhaps by modifying the DXE code? (the two things
>> seem very similar).
>
>For your information, I ve heard rumors about something called the DXL
>format. I heard it's more flexible than dxe. If anybody knows more about
>it, please let it be known.

That won't help with making an /AF driver, though, because this is an
externally defined format that we need to comply with. It is very simple
(just a binary block of code), but I think some hackery may be required
to get the djgpp output into the right form. Not that I know anything
about this side of things: I am really just guessing here...


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