Re: [PATCH] linux/gfxterm integration

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 08:57:35PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> This patch integrates the generic Linux loader with gfxterm.  The result is
> that graphical mode becomes usable with this loader.  Our loader gets the
> screen settings from the video subsystem (as per gfxterm setup), and passes
> them to Linux.
> 
> This way GRUB/gfxterm can transition to Linux/fb with no further mode
> setting.  Perhaps this can be exploited to make the transition seamless
> by using the same background image in both places, but I haven't explored
> this possibility yet :-)
> 
> Note: As the comment in grub/video.h says, struct grub_video_render_target
> didn't really want to be moved.  My code only needs to access it to find
> the framebuffer address.  Perhaps it'd be better to move this information
> elsewhere?  Or split it in a separate structure / getter?

New patch.  This one calls grub_linux_setup_video() from grub_linux32_boot
instead of grub_rescue_cmd_linux.  This way it gets the video status we have
when "boot" is issued instead of the one we have when linux is loaded.

Any comments on my question about struct grub_video_render_target ?

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