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Subject: Re: writing to video memory and ioctl.
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This seems to be what I need, what Im trying to do is implement
a /dev/video driver that can be used to:
	1) change the video mode
	2) clear the screen
	3) plot pixels (via IOCTL probably)
	4) draw simple shapes (again, via IOCTL)

I was also thinking about adding simple bitmap support.

Jon
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