Re: ITP plex86, if it complies to DFSG

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

ferret@phonewave.net writes:

> > > A generic BIOS, not modified for use by an emulator, but freely
> > > redistributable could still be considered 'firmware' in the sense above,
> > > in that it was designed to be generic and not for that (or any other)
> > > specific machine. I don't think the plex86 BIOS would qualify, though.
> > 
> > I started writing a FB Graphics Device for Bochs and adapting that to
> > plex should close this thread. :)
> 
> Even better. Thanks. But will plex be able to render framebuffer into an X
> window? Not that I can even run plex, as it reboots my machine.

A Framebuffer is just a chunk of memory where the graphic is stored,
so one just uses an XImage with shm for it and draws that 25 times a
second. Thats the easy part.

MfG
        Goswin