Re: Using vesa with Xen on NetBSD 6.0 BETA

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau%entel.upc.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Manuel Bouyer 
<bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:49:58PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> It's just a stupid question, but I've been trying to use the vesa
>> framebuffer with Xen on 6.0 BETA without luck, NetBSD is still booting
>> using the regular 80x25 text console, here is my bootloader line:
>>
>> menu=Boot Xen:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;vesa 1680x1050x32;load
>> /netbsd-XEN3_DOM0 console=pc;multiboot /xen42.gz
>>
>> If anyone could give a hand with this...
>
> Unless I missed something, vesa is not supported for NetBSD/Xen.
> It may not be very hard to add support, it should just be a matter
> of making the command line option known.

That's what I though, that NetBSD/Xen didn't have support for vesa,
could you elaborate how to add support for it? Shouldn't it need some
kind of memory access to be able to connect to the video card?

Thanks!

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> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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