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

[Gedare Bloom]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
> 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
>>
Feel free to put it there. Ignore that TBR for now...

>> Best wishes,
>>
>>              Pavel
>>
>>