Re: kexec and frame buffer

[Luca Falavigna]

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Eric W. Biederman ha scritto:
> Anyway I believe you also want to look at include/linux/tty.h
> at the screen_info structure.  I believe that is where
> all of that information is passed.
I noticed. Maybe if we fill struct x86_linux_param_header with some values
obtained from struct screen_info, we should be able to "score that mid-court
prayer" ;)

>>I tried to pass --real-mode flag to kexec but my virtual machine doesn't like
>>it. When I launch kexec -e, it tells me: "A strange behaviour occourred which
>>crashed virtual machine".
>
>
> Cool.  I haven't used that code in a long time but it is pretty
> trivial code to switches to real mode so I don't really doubt it :)
Added to my list-of-things-to-do-after-holydays :)

Regards,
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					Luca
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