On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:31 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > console=ttyS0 console=tty0 > > Note that the Open-Firmware frame-buffer support is broken in many 2.6 > > kernels (I mean on real Macs) > > How so ?
Well, there have been many issues with frame-buffer in 2.6, not only on Mac platform. With Open-Firmware frame buffer, I remember the first 2.6 kernels had no fb output at all. Then came kernels that could display a Tux penguin in psychadelic colors, I guess it was drawing in 16 bits mode when the OF frame-buffer is 15 bits. This has been solved in more recent kernels. I don't remember in which version it was fixed (but I think around 2.6.5 or 2.6.6). I can easily reproduce this on my Ibook and on my Apple Network Server, which means it's not a hardware-dependant bug (Ibook 2 has an ATI graphic card, ANS is cirrus-logic) nor it's specific to some OF version (ANS one is really old...). There is now another bug with qemu: with recent 2.6 kernels, the frame-buffer is recognized and console is working but it only draws characters black on black background, even if I send escape sequences to change the drawing color. Note that the penguin is well drawn, in those cases. If you have an idea of what can cause this, I'd be glad to know it ;-) [...] -- J. Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Never organized _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
