Alexandre Chartre wrote:
>
> On 02/09/10 14:33, jf simon 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?
>
> Sorry, I don't know where you can find examples.
Unfortunately, I don't believe any of Sun's SPARC graphic drivers
are open source.
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