Bochs VBE & Virtualbox framebuffer driver

Bochs VBE & Virtualbox framebuffer driver

[Jonathan Campbell]

This is an experimental framebuffer driver for VirtualBox and Bochs VBE 
displays. It started off as a proof of concept and grew into the code it 
is now. When testing Linux in Bochs or VirtualBox this allows greater 
control over the display and bit depth, though no h/w acceleration.

What do you think? Would this be something that could make it into the 
mainline kernel?

http://www.hackipedia.org/Projects/bochsfb/tvbox-v2.2-bochsfb-rev-00000019-src.tar.xz

Re: Bochs VBE & Virtualbox framebuffer driver

[Tomi Valkeinen]

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Hi,

On 19/08/13 11:24, Jonathan Campbell wrote:
> This is an experimental framebuffer driver for VirtualBox and Bochs VBE
> displays. It started off as a proof of concept and grew into the code it
> is now. When testing Linux in Bochs or VirtualBox this allows greater
> control over the display and bit depth, though no h/w acceleration.
> 
> What do you think? Would this be something that could make it into the
> mainline kernel?

I don't see why not, although I know nothing about VirtualBox nor Bochs.
But with a very quick glance, it at least needs to be changed to match
the kernel coding conventions.

 Tomi



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