[openbeos] Re: Haiku no longer booting

"François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "Simon Taylor" <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I'm limited in the same way as you with serial debugging 
> > > unfortunately. 
> > > I'll have to pick up a cheap old system to be a debugging 
> > > terminal 
> > > :)
> > Before you do that: I plan to have an on-screen KDL in the not so 
> > distant future ;-)
> I guess you'll end up having some framebuffer descriptor in the 
> kernel 
> as in R5:
> 
> struct kfb_info {
>         void *fb;
>         uint32 width;
>         uint32 height;
>         uint32 bytes_per_row; // ?
>         uint32 ;
>         uint32 bits_per_pixel; // ?
>         uint32 ;
> };
> 
> and a syscall to update it from app_server when switching video modes
> /
> workspaces.

Hehe :)
Although we won't be binary compatible on this, that's how I 
anticipated it. In fact, there already is a kernel function that just 
does this, only the syscall is missing.

Bye,
   Axel.

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