While information supply is currently a not in order whats going to happen to SNAP, check out
http://svn.ecomstation.nl/snap.
It contains the first 10 features and bugfixes (so far). To quote the sentence I have written that "SNAP is not the holy grail" refers to this bug:
http://svn.ecomstation.nl/snap/ticket/9What that means is that SNAP is not a video driver. It partly depends on other components of the OS like screen01.sys.
As for the VESA stuff I keep hearing rumors of buggy VESA BIOS'es. I have not yet seen as system where Panorama does not work on. The Panorama code however has a bug with the shadow buffer, which can cause problems. But this canf fixed.
But in my experience the boot success rate of VESA SNAP is lower in my experience then with Panorama.
See this ticket for details:
http://svn.ecomstation.nl/snap/ticket/4The current supported video cards will remain in there and this ticket might interested you:
http://svn.ecomstation.nl/snap/ticket/10So the strong effort is on VESA and then we might see further. But people need to get all the facts on the table.
That means that with proper VESA support, a generic wide screen enabler (for none VESA resolutions) and proper set
MTRR and PAT setup we should have pretty decent support.
We will already have enough work with all the features listed in the bugtracker. So native chipsets are not ruled out in the future but are however not a priority currently. Since the things we have to work on.
Roderick Klein
Mensys