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Re: [Xen-devel] beginnings of allowing more than the basic 80x25 VGA scr
| To: | "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] beginnings of allowing more than the basic 80x25 VGA screen resolution |
| From: | Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 4 Jul 2005 08:50:27 +0100 |
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On 4 Jul 2005, at 08:28, Jan Beulich wrote: Hmm, interesting. I would have hoped such thing would exist, but I can't see how it could work, since the code affected by CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT (which is what in non-guest Linux deals with the vga= option) doesn't even exist in XenLinux. Further more, since XEN is a multiboot image, it would require infrastructure to switch back toreal mode for issuing the necessary INT10-s in the guest kernel, which Ithink is neither very desirable nor existing. So I must be missing something, but I'd need a pointer at where I would have to look for the alternative code. We could certainly add a way to propagate the mode option through to the vga driver, but is the Linux vga driver really unable to switch modes without bios help? Is there support for a protected-mode vesa/vbe driver instead? -- Keir _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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