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 -- %mab _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
