On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:48:41PM -0700, Pat Campbell wrote:
> Enough of the implementation has changed so I decided to go through
> another RFC cycle.
>
> What this patch does
> Allows PV framebuffer to be resized via xrandr or fbset and to start
> up the GUI at higher than 800x600
>
> What is new in this iteration:
> 1. No longer extending pd[] for extra memory
> 2. New kernel xenfb.videomem param
> 3. Added new events for extended FB memory mapping
> 4. Extending FB memory via gntdev, supports up to 20MB
> on 64 bit guest, 40MB for a 32 bit guest. Uses a two
> level grant table.
> 5. xenkbd exported func to set pointer screen geometry
> 6. Removed "wart" from fbif.h
>
> New kernel xenfb param:
> videomem array, FB size in MB, max scanline length
> vm config ie:
> extra="xenfb.videomem=5,1024 "
On the one hand I like this because this gives the guest admin control over
how much of their RAM they want to put aside for the FB. On the other hand I
don't like this because it also impacts RAM allocation inside QEMU which is
a denial of service attack on Dom0.
I was originally thinking that you'd put 'videomem' as a parameter in the
PVFB config of the guest, eg
vfb = [ "type=vnc,vncunused=1,vnclisten=127.0.0.1,vncpasswd=,videoram=5" ]
I'm fine with it being a kernel param, as long as we also have a way for the
Dom0 admin to specify a hard limit in the vfb= config option. A combo of both
will allow flexibility for domU admin, and good control for the Dom0 admin.
> Screen should start out at 800x600 in the console and then switch to
> whatever resolution you specified in xorg.conf for the GUI. Switching
> to the console will revert screen to 800x600.
>
> X11 fbdev will use the builtin resolution of 800x600 if alternate modes are
> not specified in xorg.conf.
I don't have an answer for this problem, since its not my areas of expertise,
but requiring manual xorg.conf settings is really not a very nice thing to
deal with. Xorg is moving to a 100% auto-configured setup. With regular
monitors it'll probe EDID or whatever to get display capabilities - obviously
we don't have that capability, but I wonder if there's some way we can provide
enough info to X so that it can automatically enable any of the resolutions
without needing Modelines / Modes.
Ideally the out of the box config would allow X to auto-startup with zero
config file, pick a resonable default resolution, and provide enough info
to allow 'xrandr' to be used to resize to any resolution within the confines
of the video RAM allocation.
Dan.
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