[openbeos] Re: Haiku no longer booting
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:30:40 +0200 CEST
"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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