From: "M. Gerards" <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>,
James Buchanan <buchanan@iinet.net.au>
Subject: Re: Anyone working on graphics console for GRUB 2?
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 12:15:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1084184130.409f5642890af@webmail.han.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <409F4D86.80709@iinet.net.au>
Quoting James Buchanan <buchanan@iinet.net.au>:
> If someone has started on this, how will the graphics be done? Will
> it use a standalone SVGAlib, maybe a "generic" SVGA framebuffer,
Using SVGAlib would be evil and a lot of work.
I think the best way to do this is by using VESA. At the moment there
is a VGA framebuffer, but it needs to be fixed. If you want to work
on this, can you fix the VGA framebuffer?
> working to the VESA BIOS Extensions v3 or somesuch? The RedHat Grub
> screen is very nice. Not sure how they did it. Has a nice clean set
> of widgets. How would Unicode characters be drawn on the screen,
> would there be a lookup table of bitmap font outlines or something?
AFAIK a bitmap font is used for GRUB 2. Just have a look at the sourcecode.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-10 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-10 9:38 Anyone working on graphics console for GRUB 2? James Buchanan
2004-05-10 10:15 ` M. Gerards [this message]
2004-05-10 16:22 ` James Buchanan
2004-05-10 20:23 ` Shivram Khandeparker
2004-05-13 14:37 ` Marco Gerards
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