Re: [PATCH] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] support console resolutions better than 80x25

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Sounds like it'd be better to make slot 0 the default and require
override
>if the user really cares about the BIOS font data. That sounds a lot
less
>likely than someone trying to use the higher-res text mode on an ATI
adapter
>and getting confused when it doesn't work!

I can certainly change it that way.

>It'd be nice if we could also have the Linux-style linearfb code, so
we
>could use the higher res graphics modes. I suppose that would be a lot
more
>work though, and should fit in the framework that this patch provides
(in
>particular, the info structure passed to domain0 should be able to
support
>that, right)?

Yes, that was the plan for the next step. It'll work on VESA 3.0 BIOSes
only
as far as I can tell at this point, so some set of machines will be
excluded.

Jan

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