On 7/19/19 3:02 AM, Henrik Gulbrandsen wrote: > In the last few months, I have been extending the video support in bhyve > to allow booting from live ISO images, which sometimes lack UEFI > loaders. > There was already a video BIOS with dormant support for VGA, but I could > not use that, because the X11 int10 module runs a real-mode x86 emulator > that aborts when it tries to enter the C code running in protected mode. > > Instead, I added support for PCI Expansion ROMs to bhyve and wrote a new > SVGA video BIOS from scratch in 8086 assembly code. The current features > include VGA modes 3 and 12h, 24-bit and 32-bit VESA modes from 640x480 > to > 1920x1200, and enough BIOS functions to boot a typical Linux desktop. > > At this point, I think it's good enough for a preliminary release, so if > you are interested, you will find all patch files at the following URL: > > https://www.gulbra.net/freebsd-bhyve/ > > My apologies for the 15-year-old web layout, which will probably break > horribly on modern smartphones. Also, I hope I have not duplicated the > work of someone else. I didn't want to announce this before it worked.
This is pretty impressive work! Would you be able to post these patches to a public repository, e.g. on github or gitlab or some such? That would really help with review and allow others to assist with the work as well. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
