Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 21:06:30 +0100 From: "Alexey Shuvaev" <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: CFT: Graphics support for /boot/loader Message-ID: <20090207200630.GA50298@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> In-Reply-To: <498DE489.8000309@FreeBSD.org> References: <200902071859.n17Ixh4k075786@lurza.secnetix.de> <498DE489.8000309@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 11:44:09AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Oliver,
>
> This is very nice looking stuff. :) The only thing I don't see is a
> timer for bypassing the menu, an indication on the menu of where we're
> at in the timer, and a way to suspend the timer. These features exist
> in the current boot loader and I would hate to lose them.
>
> If they exist and I'm simply missing it, my apologies.
>
For now the timer is in the upper-left corner. You might have missed it
due to the bad fit of 640x480 resolution on modern widescreen TFT monitors.
I want just to say that it works good on:
ICH9 based motherboard with G33 intel video card,
FreeBSD wep4035 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Feb 7 20:25:10 CET 2009 root@wep4035:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NOUSB amd64
and gpt partitioned disk (but no zfs):
=> 34 976773101 ad6 GPT (466G)
34 1571840 1 freebsd-ufs (768M)
1571874 8388608 2 freebsd-swap (4.0G)
9960482 1024 3 freebsd-boot (512K)
9961506 8388608 4 freebsd-ufs (4.0G)
18350114 524288 5 freebsd-ufs (256M)
18874402 134217728 6 freebsd-ufs (64G)
153092130 33554432 7 freebsd-ufs (16G)
186646562 33554432 8 freebsd-ufs (16G)
220200994 756572141 - free - (361G)
The monitor has 1680x1050 native resolution and I see the red border too.
Looks good, BTW is 640x480 in 4 bits per pixel the maximum of standard VGA?
Can you go higher or you are already in protected mode with (almost) no BIOS?
I mean, 640x480 is ok, but 4 bits per pixel... mmm... the same 16 colors as
in text mode... although with a palette...
Just my 0.02$,
Alexey.
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