smsabu2002@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>I have an application which gets Video controller information using
>VESA BIOS routines. It makes use of LRMI library for making real mode
>BIOS call in x86_32 bit Linux machine.
>
>Now, I need to port this application for x64 Linux. But, LRMI is
>limited only to x86_32 enviornment. Is there any other equivalent
>libarary for x64 porting ?

XFree86 and X.Org solve this problem by including an x86 emulator, based on
dosemu. And yes, they actually execute VESA BIOS entry points on non-x86
processors using exactly this method.
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Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.