12 Sep
2003
12 Sep
'03
4:18 a.m.
On 12 Sep 2003, q u a s i wrote:
If you are going to use it, isnt it better off in the kernel? It will be fractionally faster than loading from disk.
Actually speed has nothing to do with it. See, using frame buffer requires switching the BIOS display mode. This can only be done while the processor is still in real mode. Once the processor enters protected mode (which is one of the first things the kernel does), it is impossible to make a BIOS call.
Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt for details.
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