From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com,
	stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, Ian.Campbell@citrix.com,
	jbeulich@suse.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Subject: [PATCH 1 of 3] xen/vga: Add 'vga_delay' parameter to delay screen output by X miliseconds per line
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:27:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1da2ce71ed41d1b74eb.1333398445@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1333398444@phenom.dumpdata.com>
# HG changeset patch
# User Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
# Date 1333398408 14400
# Node ID f1da2ce71ed41d1b74ebe6916ff7710d6579438e
# Parent  1088c8557a46ab28e509bb9482e2a73a21590df8
xen/vga: Add 'vga_delay' parameter to delay screen output by X miliseconds per line.
This is useful if you find yourself on machine that has no serial console,
nor any PCI, PCIe to put in a serial card. Nothing really fancy except it allows
to capture the screenshot of the screen using a camera.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
diff -r 1088c8557a46 -r f1da2ce71ed4 xen/drivers/video/vga.c
--- a/xen/drivers/video/vga.c	Fri Mar 30 21:05:54 2012 +0100
+++ b/xen/drivers/video/vga.c	Mon Apr 02 16:26:48 2012 -0400
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #include <xen/mm.h>
 #include <xen/vga.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
-
+#include <xen/delay.h>
 /* Filled in by arch boot code. */
 struct xen_vga_console_info vga_console_info;
 
@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ void (*vga_puts)(const char *) = vga_noo
 static char __initdata opt_vga[30] = "";
 string_param("vga", opt_vga);
 
+/*
+ * 'vga_delay=miliseconds' which defines to delay to print a line
+ * to the screen. 2 is a a good value to get a good screen output.
+ */
+unsigned int __read_mostly vga_delay;
+integer_param("vga_delay", vga_delay);
 /* VGA text-mode definitions. */
 static unsigned int columns, lines;
 #define ATTRIBUTE   7
@@ -135,6 +141,9 @@ static void vga_text_puts(const char *s)
                 ypos = lines - 1;
                 memmove(video, video + 2 * columns, ypos * 2 * columns);
                 memset(video + ypos * 2 * columns, 0, 2 * xpos);
+                if (vga_delay)
+                    mdelay(vga_delay);
+
             }
             xpos = 0;
         }
next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-02 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-02 20:27 [PATCH 0 of 3] Patches for Xen 4.2 (v2) Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-02 20:27 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2012-04-03  7:14   ` [PATCH 1 of 3] xen/vga: Add 'vga_delay' parameter to delay screen output by X miliseconds per line Jan Beulich
2012-04-03  8:07   ` Ian Campbell
2012-04-02 20:27 ` [PATCH 2 of 3] xen/pat: After suspend re-write PAT if BIOS changed it Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-03  7:16   ` Jan Beulich
2012-04-02 20:27 ` [PATCH 3 of 3] xend: Don't crash due to weird PCI devices Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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