Re: Framebuffer address and kernel video mode

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:44:59PM +0100, phcoder wrote:
> Hello. First of all some good news: I managed to boot xnu kernel. To do 
> so I need to set it to video mode and pass video mode info to kernel. 
> Now I do it in adapter-specific way which is bad and ugly. So I would 
> like to propose an interface to set video mode before loading kernel and 
> then retrieve information:
> For this I propose to put grub_gfxterm_init lines 253 (modevar = 
> grub_env_get ("gfxmode"))-482 (grub_video_fill_rect (...)) into video.c as
> grub_video_setup_by_var (char *varname)
> The informations I need is:
> 
> framebuffer address, bytes_per_scan_line, resolution, color depth
> 
> Unfortunately framebuffer_address and bytes_per_scanline is missing from 
>  struct grub_video_mode_info. I propose to add it to this structure

This is VERY nice.  Maybe we can make the Linux loader do the same, once we
switch to loader/i386/linux.c (current loader is loader/i386/pc/linux.c).

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