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RE: [Xen-devel] special video mode numbers

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Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] special video mode numbers
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:53:55 +0100
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>On the same line of thought, 
>
>Is it possible to change default mode to one of vesa modes (118 or 11b)
>instead of text mode?

I'd suggest not to do so - whaetever mode chosen, I don't think there's a
formal guarantee that it'll be available. Further, Linux doesn't do so either.

>If so, (in 3.0.4) setup-xen.c, what does video_mode 3 means? Is it the
>correct place to make this change?

Mode 3 was VGA color text 80x25 originally, but got overloaded by derived
modes (80x43, 80x50, and all the less standard modes) later, so today it
really at best means 80 colums, color, and a varying number of lines. But
I don't thinkyou want to backport all the necessary support code to 3.0.4...

>I don't see screen_info used beyond dom0_init_screen_info, is this code
>deprecated?

???

Jan

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