Great work Henrik On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 18:19, Rodney W. Grimes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 7/19/19 3:02 AM, Henrik Gulbrandsen wrote: > > > In the last few months, I have been extending the video support in > bhyve > > > to allow booting from live ISO images, which sometimes lack UEFI > > > loaders. > > > There was already a video BIOS with dormant support for VGA, but I > could > > > not use that, because the X11 int10 module runs a real-mode x86 > emulator > > > that aborts when it tries to enter the C code running in protected > mode. > > > > > > Instead, I added support for PCI Expansion ROMs to bhyve and wrote a > new > > > SVGA video BIOS from scratch in 8086 assembly code. The current > features > > > include VGA modes 3 and 12h, 24-bit and 32-bit VESA modes from 640x480 > > > to > > > 1920x1200, and enough BIOS functions to boot a typical Linux desktop. > > > > > > At this point, I think it's good enough for a preliminary release, so > if > > > you are interested, you will find all patch files at the following URL: > > > > > > https://www.gulbra.net/freebsd-bhyve/ > > > > > > My apologies for the 15-year-old web layout, which will probably break > > > horribly on modern smartphones. Also, I hope I have not duplicated the > > > work of someone else. I didn't want to announce this before it worked. > > > > This is pretty impressive work! Would you be able to post these patches > to > > a public repository, e.g. on github or gitlab or some such? That would > > really help with review and allow others to assist with the work as well. > > I let this fall through my cracks as well while busy with > other things. I too would like to see this work moved > forward. I see that your patches are against an 11.3 > system, and can appreciate that not everone has resources > to run -head, how can we assist in getting these patches > moved forward to head? > > Regards, > -- > Rod Grimes > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
