yaboot: text mode or graphics mode?
Matt Sealey
matt at genesi-usa.com
Tue Jan 6 12:04:52 EST 2009
They should be mapped into PCI address space with the rest, you should
note though that a bunch of people have asked this a bunch of times and
the response is usually null.
If you want to output debugging info, try a serial port, or if you're
still at the point in boot where the OF is still around, you can still
output to it (check prom_init.c) and if not, the open firmware
framebuffer console driver is your best friend..
sumedh tirodkar wrote:
> Isn't there any other way that i can access the VGA registers? So as
> to reconfigure them...
>
> -Sumedh
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com> wrote:
>> sumedh tirodkar wrote:
>>> I just found out that openfirmware boots into graphics mode(non-text
>>> mode). Now i wish to switch back to text mode. how do i do this?
>> Unfortunately unless you are running some kind of yaboot-accessible or
>> firmware-accessible x86 BIOS emulation, this isn't possible.
>>
>> --
>> Matt
>>
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