History log of /haiku/src/add-ons/accelerants/vesa/accelerant.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 1005a276 19-Oct-2021 Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@pulkomandy.tk>

vesa: live BIOS patching for Intel video devices

The VESA standard does not define any way for software to set a custom
video mode, which means normally we would be constrained to whichever
modes the video card manufacturer decided to provide. However, since we
run the BIOS in an emulated environment, it is possible (and even quite
easy) to patch it and inject any video mode we want, provided we know
the format to use and where to put the info in.

This approach was used in the NewOS VESA driver, as well as in
915resolution (a tool that predates the availability of native drivers
for Linux for Intel videocards). Later on it was also used in Chameleon
and Clover, bootloaders that are used for hackintoshes (running MacOS on
unsupported hardware).

This commit implements full support for Intel cards only, AMD and NVidia
will be added later (but there is preliminary code to detect them)

Change-Id: I2c528ba18b3863f486da694860a10761efcbfb3f
Reviewed-on: https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/4624
Tested-by: Commit checker robot <no-reply+buildbot@haiku-os.org>
Reviewed-by: waddlesplash <waddlesplash@gmail.com>


# e0c25f98 20-Aug-2016 Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@pulkomandy.tk>

VESA: compare modes by index, instead of contents

We only compared the height, width, and depth of modes to decide if the
mode was already set. However, at boot, we may have these settings right
and other things not properly configured, preventing VESA to set a
working mode unless forced from the boot menu.

Fixes #12918


# 6328832f 30-Mar-2008 Axel Dörfler <axeld@pinc-software.de>

* Changed get_boot_item() API: it now also can retrieve the size of the boot
item entry.
* The bios_ia32 video platform code now stores the available VESA modes in
the new vesa_modes kernel_args field.
* When configuring a VESA mode via settings file, it's no longer needed to
specify the exact mode - the closest available mode is now used. This should
help with bug #1962.
* frame_buffer_console_init() now also creates a boot_item for the VESA modes
in the kernel_args.
* The VESA accelerant now filters the mode list to only contain modes that
are actually supported.
* Moved non-shared vesa driver data into its own file vesa_private.h.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@24675 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 93ee2104 08-Apr-2005 Axel Dörfler <axeld@pinc-software.de>

Added very basic VESA driver. Will be improved in the future (right now
it doesn't really do anything, it just passes the initial frame buffer
on to the app_server).
While it seems to work on real hardware (if you set the video mode to
640x480x32, app_server restriction), under Bochs, the app_server crashes.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@12273 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 6328832fba8f149074dbe7502dc0c180ff013263 30-Mar-2008 Axel Dörfler <axeld@pinc-software.de>

* Changed get_boot_item() API: it now also can retrieve the size of the boot
item entry.
* The bios_ia32 video platform code now stores the available VESA modes in
the new vesa_modes kernel_args field.
* When configuring a VESA mode via settings file, it's no longer needed to
specify the exact mode - the closest available mode is now used. This should
help with bug #1962.
* frame_buffer_console_init() now also creates a boot_item for the VESA modes
in the kernel_args.
* The VESA accelerant now filters the mode list to only contain modes that
are actually supported.
* Moved non-shared vesa driver data into its own file vesa_private.h.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@24675 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 93ee21046d225f4f58eeeade87a937b8c10da6f1 08-Apr-2005 Axel Dörfler <axeld@pinc-software.de>

Added very basic VESA driver. Will be improved in the future (right now
it doesn't really do anything, it just passes the initial frame buffer
on to the app_server).
While it seems to work on real hardware (if you set the video mode to
640x480x32, app_server restriction), under Bochs, the app_server crashes.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@12273 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96