Re: [Xen-devel] vesafb

To:	"Ian Pratt" <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] vesafb
From:	"ron minnich" <rminnich@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:13:18 -0700
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On 4/30/07, Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As regards enabling vesafb, it might be nice to add support to Xen to
drop into real mode via a trampoline in the bottom megabyte and execute
a BIOS call (marshalling the registers in each direction). We can then
get the dom0 kernel to make this hypercall when initialising the vesafb.


ok, I have implemented this in linuxbios once already, I will look
into it.I had hoped never to see it again but you can't win them all
:-)

thanks

ron

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