Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:02:14 +0200 From: Henrik Gulbrandsen <henrik@gulbra.net> To: FreeBSD Virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> Subject: New video BIOS for bhyve Message-ID: <ea5e9e82398c7cece09ebdd6f3551d31@www.gulbra.net>
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In the last few months, I have been extending the video support in bhyve
to allow booting from live ISO images, which sometimes lack UEFI
loaders.
There was already a video BIOS with dormant support for VGA, but I could
not use that, because the X11 int10 module runs a real-mode x86 emulator
that aborts when it tries to enter the C code running in protected mode.
Instead, I added support for PCI Expansion ROMs to bhyve and wrote a new
SVGA video BIOS from scratch in 8086 assembly code. The current features
include VGA modes 3 and 12h, 24-bit and 32-bit VESA modes from 640x480
to
1920x1200, and enough BIOS functions to boot a typical Linux desktop.
At this point, I think it's good enough for a preliminary release, so if
you are interested, you will find all patch files at the following URL:
https://www.gulbra.net/freebsd-bhyve/
My apologies for the 15-year-old web layout, which will probably break
horribly on modern smartphones. Also, I hope I have not duplicated the
work of someone else. I didn't want to announce this before it worked.
/Henrik
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