On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Gedare Bloom <ged...@rtems.org> wrote: > Congrats Jan, great work! > Gedare > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Pavel Pisa <p...@cmp.felk.cvut.cz> wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> >> I would like to inform that full text of the bachelor >> thesis >> >> Drivers and Libraries Enabling RTEMS OS GUI on Current PC Graphics Cards >> >> has been defended and is available online >> >> https://dspace.cvut.cz/handle/10467/61467 >> >> https://dspace.cvut.cz/bitstream/handle/10467/61467/F3-BP-2015-Dolezal-Jan-Drivers-and-Libraries-Enabling-RTEMS-OS-GUI-on-Current-PC-Graphics-Cards.pdf >> >> It provides some generic overview and the documents >> actual implementation. >> >> The VESA BIOS based support is chosen to be a default graphic option >> for x86 based systems for upcoming RTEMS 4.11 release. Long story short >> >> pc386 family (pc386 .. pc686) VESA BIOS Extension (VBE) based frame buffer >> configuration selected by default >> >> the switch to graphic mode is controlled by multiboot option >> --video=auto|off|1024x768-32 etc. >> application can override default none by exporting variable const char * >> const rtems_fb_default_mode="auto"; >> >> Possible followup tasks: >> >> - provide RTEMS text console/kernel messages output to framebuffer >> in graphic mode - can be based on Qiao Yang character output for RPi >> console >> >> https://github.com/yangqiao/rtems/blob/framebuffer/c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/console/outch.c >> - use some x86 instructions emulator/executor to allow use PCI/PCIe >> VBE equipped graphic cards on non-x86 systems >> >> It would worth to add link to thesis to the list of RTEMS references, >> but there is a problem/question where. The complete list of all >> references maintained on original Wiki is now moved to the section TBR >> >> https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/TBR/Website/RTEMSReferences >> Feel free to put it there. Ignore that TBR for now...
>> Best wishes, >> >> Pavel >> >> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
