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

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/8/06 11:05 am, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> It's true the Linux video.S is mainly supporting some truly ancient
> video
>> cards. Is vesa3 very prevalent nowadays? Could we make do with vesa2?
> 
> If you're intending to use real mode, then VESA 2.x is sufficient, and
> I
> haven't seen any machines with only VESA 1.x in the past few years.
> VESA 3.0 seems to be less common (the [few] machines I checked the
> versions on were about 50:50 2.x and 3.0 respectively).

As you say, we're probably going to have to bite the bullet and support
switch back to real mode at some point anyway. An approach which leaves 50%
of video cards out in the cold isn't great.

 -- Keir



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