On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:44:59PM +0100, phcoder wrote:
> Hello. First of all some good news: I managed to boot xnu kernel. To do
> so I need to set it to video mode and pass video mode info to kernel.
> Now I do it in adapter-specific way which is bad and ugly. So I would
> like to propose an interface to set video mode before loading kernel and
> then retrieve information:
> For this I propose to put grub_gfxterm_init lines 253 (modevar =
> grub_env_get ("gfxmode"))-482 (grub_video_fill_rect (...)) into video.c as
> grub_video_setup_by_var (char *varname)
> The informations I need is:
>
> framebuffer address, bytes_per_scan_line, resolution, color depth
>
> Unfortunately framebuffer_address and bytes_per_scanline is missing from
> struct grub_video_mode_info. I propose to add it to this structure
This is VERY nice. Maybe we can make the Linux loader do the same, once we
switch to loader/i386/linux.c (current loader is loader/i386/pc/linux.c).
--
Robert Millan
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how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
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