[Xen-devel] about framebuffer support in xen domain 0

["qiang.wang" <qiang.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, list,
I have a problem after moving the bootsplash patch into the domain 0 kernel. It doesn't work.
After digging the source code, I found that the kernel data "struct screen_info screen_info" is set to a specific value in arch/i386/kernel/setup-xen.c. And the info->video_type is XEN_VGATYPE_TEXT_MODE_3, so it doesn't support framebuffer in domain 0 and the bootsplash either.

void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
{
...

if (is_initial_xendomain()) {
                /* This is drawn from a dump from vgacon:startup in
                 * standard Linux. */
                screen_info.orig_video_mode = 3;
                screen_info.orig_video_isVGA = 1;
                screen_info.orig_video_lines = 25;
                screen_info.orig_video_cols = 80;
                screen_info.orig_video_ega_bx = 3;
                screen_info.orig_video_points = 16;
                screen_info.orig_y = screen_info.orig_video_lines - 1;
                if (xen_start_info->console.dom0.info_size >=
                    sizeof(struct dom0_vga_console_info)) {
                        //const struct dom0_vga_console_info *info =
                        struct dom0_vga_console_info *info =
                                (struct dom0_vga_console_info *)(
                                        (char *)xen_start_info +
                                        xen_start_info->console.dom0.info_off);
                        // wangqiang
                        //info->video_type = XEN_VGATYPE_VESA_LFB;
                        dom0_init_screen_info(info);
                }
                xen_start_info->console.domU.mfn = 0;
                xen_start_info->console.domU.evtchn = 0;
        } else
                screen_info.orig_video_isVGA = 0;
...
}


it seems that the initial dom0_vga_console_info is set by fill_console_start_info() in xen/drivers/video/vga.c
My question is that is there a particular reason to assign the dom0_vga_console_info a specific value?


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