public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@gmail.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: rdunlap@osdl.org, fastboot@osdl.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kexec and frame buffer
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 14:19:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F4C6E8.1050605@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17jf1zgnz.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Eric W. Biederman ha scritto:
> So without doing passing --real-mode the vga= parameter currently
> cannot work.  The vga= parameter is processed by vga.S which
> make BIOS calls and we bypass all of the BIOS calls.
Actually that file is video.S

> So you can try with the --real-mode option and you have
> a chance of the code working.  Or you can figure out which
> information video.S passes to the kernel figure out how
> to get that same information out of a running kernel
> and then /sbin/kexec can be tweaked to pass the current
> video mode.  Changing frame buffer modes shouldn't work
> but you should at least be able to preserve the existing
> ones.
I tried to pass --real-mode flag to kexec but my virtual machine doesn't like
it. When I launch kexec -e, it tells me: "A strange behaviour occourred which
crashed virtual machine". I'll dig source code ASAP to figure out this matter.
Meanwhile I'm going to follow your advice to inspect video.S in order to track
down something useful.

Regards,
- --
					Luca
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iQEVAwUBQvTG5czkDT3RfMB6AQJY8Qf9HucRMCCAvta/pAs1CakqwJs5bZo4uJUu
3tat7+24I57mDmj+2IGe7qLO9W9ctCyVJStHTMCpjYq0qF7TA9VZSsU3ip1h9/IG
HnCzozUGpd3yrNsrs3v0fvinQ1z2UtrOY8lxCUISchI3Ho43KnPDoAV2mfT+eEcP
pN/lUz6Z/Jb0YbNS9Z352bqs+JtuxHzX1pVD4uH4X+Dkua3kAde5C0bwP9K+O15A
//qlXb4AJErv6I5+Q/RxCDAn4TtVJCcdoA9Sp84ZH8jnxiYkg2coijvwFHLLvPD/
bK49QyD5QHmsVC3x/pIefd3qPEOphbNPE7AlN86X8B4i8lI6jr2x3g==
=YhUC
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-06 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-04 13:35 kexec and frame buffer Luca Falavigna
2005-08-04 18:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-08-06 14:19   ` Luca Falavigna [this message]
2005-08-06 16:50     ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-08-07 15:19       ` Luca Falavigna
2005-08-12 18:53         ` Luca Falavigna
2005-08-12 17:10           ` Eric W. Biederman

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=42F4C6E8.1050605@gmail.com \
    --to=dktrkranz@gmail.com \
    --cc=ebiederm@xmission.com \
    --cc=fastboot@osdl.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=rdunlap@osdl.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox