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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	Jayant Mangalampalli <Jayant_Mangalampalli@phoenix.com>
Subject: RE: vesafb
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 08:22:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46404167.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8A87A9A84C201449A0C56B728ACF491E0BA4A9@liverpoolst.ad.cl.cam.ac.uk>

>>> "Ian Pratt" <Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> 07.05.07 22:14 >>>
>> It is pretty easy, I sent sample code to Ian, if somebody can show me
>> how they want it to look in Xen, i.e. where the function gets called
>> and all that, I guess I can try to put it in -unstable.
>
>I think we want to parse the dom0 kernel's command line looking for a
>'vga=' parameter, and if present, setup the appropriate vesa mode just
>before un-pausing the newly created dom0.

So you want the same counter intuitive mechanism that native Linux uses
(in that GrUB parses the kernel command line), rather than having the
command line option apply directly to Xen (i.e. vesa=), leaving unhandled
any non-Linux OSes possibly usable as dom0? 

Jan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-08  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-07 13:29 vesafb Jayant Mangalampalli
2007-05-07 19:57 ` vesafb ron minnich
2007-05-07 20:14   ` vesafb Ian Pratt
2007-05-08  3:14     ` vesafb Kaushik Barde
2007-05-08  7:22     ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2007-05-08  7:40       ` vesafb Keir Fraser
2007-05-08  7:50         ` vesafb Jan Beulich
2007-05-08  8:00           ` vesafb Keir Fraser
2007-05-08  9:56             ` vesafb Jan Beulich
2007-05-08 10:38               ` vesafb Keir Fraser
2007-05-08 19:20                 ` vesafb Kaushik Barde
2007-05-08 20:06                   ` vesafb Keir Fraser
2007-05-08 20:47                     ` vesafb Kaushik Barde
2007-05-08 21:34                       ` vesafb Keir Fraser
2007-05-08 21:43                         ` vesafb Kaushik Barde
2007-05-09  7:48                         ` vesafb Jan Beulich
2007-05-09  8:14                           ` vesafb Keir Fraser
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-08  8:49 vesafb Ian Pratt
2007-04-30 20:54 vesafb ron minnich
2007-04-30 21:52 ` vesafb Ian Pratt
2007-05-01  0:13   ` vesafb ron minnich
2006-06-05 18:02 vesafb Nathan King
2006-06-08  0:32 ` vesafb Antonino A. Daplas

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