On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Мартинчик Бохниг   (Martin Bochnig)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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




Ouch, just followed this thread backwards.
Ignore  ...



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