Re: Pegasos frame buffer

[Matt Sealey <matt%genesi-usa.com@localhost>]

Frank Wille wrote:
> Tim Rightnour wrote:
>
> Tried them all. fb8-install looked interesting, but didn't do anything
> besides setting screen-width and screen-height to the given values.

That's all it does on any OF.

Stop playing with it. There is no framebuffer console on Pegasos, only
text mode, which you should treat as serial.

If you really require a graphical mode, make the ofwcons detect Pegasos
and set the required mode using vesa-set-mode, then vesa-frame-buffer-adr
will be correct when you ask for it.

The VESA functions are secret, helper functions for testing the x86
emulation and very simple graphics support, not meant for "changing the
resolution of the console" (this is impractical bordering on impossible
due to how the terminal emulator is designed on any OF, read the standard)
but so that operating systems that rely on VESA can get by unhindered
(by simply using those functions rather than int 10)

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Matt Sealey <matt%genesi-usa.com@localhost>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations