Re: Using vesa with Xen on NetBSD 6.0 BETA

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

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 06:02:09PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> 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?

No idea, sorry. I've not looked at this at all.

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