How to access VRAM physical address on L4 ?
Katsumi Maruyama <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:20:18 +0900
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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. --- K. Maruyama