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ATI 18800/28800 driver implementation notes.
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This is a software-only driver for the ATI 18800/28800 chipsets, based on
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the native drivers from old versions of the Allegro library. It only
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supports 256 color modes, and has no support for linear framebuffers or
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accelerated drawing. As such it is useful primarily because it is faster
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than the VESA 1.x bank switching mechanism, and as a workaround for the
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many bugs in common VESA driver implementations.
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This code is not portable to any platforms other than DOS+DPMI, because
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it uses BIOS calls to set the initial video mode.
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By Shawn Hargreaves (shawn@talula.demon.co.uk)
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