Re: [Xen-devel] beginnings of allowing more than the basic 80x25 VGAscreen resolution

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 Jul 2005, at 14:22, Jan Beulich wrote:

> > GRUB has code for switching back into real mode to do bios calls. We
> > could take that, plus video.S, and put them in Xen. Then add an info
> > structure for passing video info up to domain0. It's pretty ugly, but
> I
> > think there is no nice solution here. Would we also need vesa/vga
> > driver code from Linux for setting up font data in some graphics
> modes?
>
> Yes that would clearly be necessary, but perhaps a much more
> streamlined mechanism would do for XEN.
If that's the case, I'm sure Gerd can point out the 'moving parts' that 
we actually need to get basic text output working. I was hoping video.S 
alone would be sufficient... :-)
 -- Keir


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