Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 08:57:35PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >> This patch integrates the generic Linux loader with gfxterm. The result is >> that graphical mode becomes usable with this loader. Our loader gets the >> screen settings from the video subsystem (as per gfxterm setup), and passes >> them to Linux. >> >> This way GRUB/gfxterm can transition to Linux/fb with no further mode >> setting. Perhaps this can be exploited to make the transition seamless >> by using the same background image in both places, but I haven't explored >> this possibility yet :-) >> >> Note: As the comment in grub/video.h says, struct grub_video_render_target >> didn't really want to be moved. My code only needs to access it to find >> the framebuffer address. Perhaps it'd be better to move this information >> elsewhere? Or split it in a separate structure / getter? > > New patch. This one calls grub_linux_setup_video() from grub_linux32_boot > instead of grub_rescue_cmd_linux. This way it gets the video status we have > when "boot" is issued instead of the one we have when linux is loaded. > > Any comments on my question about struct grub_video_render_target ?
Don't like em... Let me think it a bit. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
