RE: VGABIOS is working under LinuxBIOS

[YhLu]

The LinuxBIOS need to add CONFIG_DIRECT_VGA to use vga console driver.....

Etherboot has that CONFIG_DIRECT_VGA .....

YH

-----Original Message-----
From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:39 PM
To: YhLu
Cc: LinuxBIOS; ron minnich; Greg Watson; Stefan Reinauer
Subject: RE: VGABIOS is working under LinuxBIOS

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 21:43, YhLu wrote:
> After all devices initialized, call do_vgabios?

No. The do_vgabios is depreciated and is removed from the
CVS. It uses a real mode switch which is very difficult to
to debug and not portable. The prefered way now is to use
the emulator to execut the VBIOS. The emulator is acting
as the .init method of a generic vga device driver.

Ollie

VGABIOS is working under LinuxBIOS

[Li-Ta Lo]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 21:54, YhLu wrote:
> The LinuxBIOS need to add CONFIG_DIRECT_VGA to use vga console driver.....
>
> Etherboot has that CONFIG_DIRECT_VGA .....

Yea, but the VGA is 'POSTed' almost at the last stage of
LinuxBIOS (just before elf_load). There is not that much
message to show in LinuxBIIOS after VGA can actually show
something.

Ollie