Why VESA and DPMS are available only for i386?

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

Hello,

Several PRs were closed based on the argument that FreeBSD/amd64
cannot call to the VESA BIOS. XFree86 solved this problem by means of
the INT10 module. I believe that it would be possible to do the same
on the FreeBSD kernel.

Is there any ongoing effort to enable the VESA kernel moule on
non-i386 platform? Is there any particular difficulty for doing this,
besides depending on VM86?

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