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Re: [Xen-devel] vesafb



> 1. Doing it from dom0 would require interface changes we don't have yet

And in my opinion we never should (based on bad experience in NetWare with
switching back to real mode).

> 2. Doing it earlier in Xen would require us to support text on graphical
>lfb, which is a bit of a pain.

That was actually the intention I had - no acceleration or anything, but simple
text rendering is no big deal (I have code to do this in nlkd). Also we've got
the necessary fonts in memory already.

Jan


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