Jan Dolezal bachelor thesis available - RTEMS VESA BIOS graphics on Current PC Graphics Cards

[Gedare Bloom]

Congrats Jan, great work!
Gedare

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Pavel Pisa <pisa at 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
>
> Best wishes,
>
>              Pavel
>
>