On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:11 AM, ????????? ?????? (Martin Bochnig) <martin at martux.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:07 AM, ????????? ?????? ? (Martin Bochnig) > <martin at martux.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:33 AM, jf simon <jfs at themis.com> wrote: >>> Alexandre Chartre wrote: >>>> >>>> ?On sun4v platforms, when Solaris boots, the OBP is removed from >>>> the memory and you can not used it anymore when Solaris is running. >>>> This is done in order to properly support virtualization (with >>>> Logical Domains). >>>> >>>> ?So when there is a frame buffer, the system checks if it has a >>>> terminal emulator, if not then it switches to the virtual console >>>> which is accessed using hypervisor calls. >>>> >>> >>> >>> thanks a lot Alex. this makes a lot of sense. >>> so i need to beef up my driver console with TEM support. any >>> ideas where i could find source code example for implementing >>> these ioctls: >>> VIS_CONSDISPLAY, VIS_CONSCOPY,VIS_CONSCURSOR and the like? >>> >>> all i could find was the vgatext driver in text mode, but it >>> doesnt apply to my case where the screen is in graphic mode. >>> thx >> >> >> >> Jean, you probably saw this documentation already? It is not what you >> have asked for. Nevertheless, just in case. Have a quick look: >> >> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-3196/ewibr?a=view > > > > > Ouch, just followed this thread backwards. > Ignore ?...
Jean, FYI: Interestingly somebody else has asked the same question in a similar context (except that he is using x86 and can use vgatext) : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/message/49019 -- %mab
