From: Graeme Gregory <ggregory@bitbox.co.uk>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:27:03 +0000 (GMT)

Re: Console Drivers -- Question Re: Linux 2.2 series

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Aki M Laukkanen wrote:

> Excuse me, vesafb is hardly banging any hardware. The whole idea is that
> the mode is already set before Linux starts booting so it could be done
> in real mode. The requirement for KGI drivers should be that they could
> initialize te card to their liking no matter from what mode (text or
> not) the card is currently in.
> 
There was a linux-kernel thread on this one ages back. Not all cards have
the ability to go back to zero and start again. Some registers change
meaning depending on cards current mode.

Also a lot of drivers have been written without specs.

Graeme