How to access VRAM physical address on L4 ?

Katsumi Maruyama <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:20:18 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.comp.micro-kernel.l4.l4ka.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear:

Question: How to access VRAM physical address on L4 ?

We are implementing a multi server OS on L4.
QEMU and VMware are used for OS run-test.

We are now considering to develope a simple VGA driver
for QEMU (using -stdvga mode).

QEMU (-stdvga option) allows us to set the VRAM area
at physical address 0xe0000000.

Sigma0 do not know this VRAM area, and we cannot
ask sigma0 to map it to a process.
We wonder how to access the physical VRAM area
from the L4 user-mode process.

Thanks in advance.
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K. Maruyama