On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 11:09:19PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> When we want to create a full VirtIO based machine, we're still missing
> graphics output. Fortunately, Linux provides us with most of the frameworks
> to render text and everything, we only need to implement a transport.
> 
> So this is a frame buffer backend written for VirtIO. Using this and my
> patch to qemu, you can use paravirtualized graphics.

Just a note: it might be useful to allow paravirtualized graphics to
handle text mode. In that case, it can be done in fbdev layer using
tileblit operations.

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