On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:33 AM, jf simon <[email protected]> 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




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