By the way enabling vbe by compiling Bochs with -enable-vbe is depricated, 'vga: extension=vbe' should be used instead in bochs-configfile. I don't understand this 0圎0000000 because Bochs supports maximum 1Gb memory and this is by far more. In banked mode nothing happens when you write to the LFB memory. f configfile This option specifies the name of the. q With this option the start menu will be skipped after loading the configuration file. bochsrc in the current directory and your home directory and display the start menu. In LFB mode it ignores requests to change the bank and nothing happens when you write to the bank memory. When you run bochs without one of the following options, it will search for a configuration file called.

Both the linear frame buffer and memory bank are available at all times. QEMU does not pay attention to the VBE_DISPI_LFB_ENABLED flag. However, when Bochs is configured to emulate a PCI video card rather than an ISA one, the address of the framebuffer is no longer fixed, but can be read from the first PCI BAR of device 0x1234:0x1111 To enable the LFB, use the VBE_DISPI_LFB_ENABLED flag (0x40) when enabling the VBE extensions (so write a value of VBE_DISPI_ENABLED | VBE_DISPI_LFB_ENABLED (0x41)). In older versions of Bochs and QEMU the location is fixed at 0圎0000000 (VBE_DISPI_LFB_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS). When using a linear frame buffer, the BGA exposes all of the graphics memory in a linear fashion. This way no graphics can be done in PM without paging or I am doing something wrong. Why is there only 128Kb videomemory? (It should be: 1024*768*3 bytes, i.e. Why the videomemory is from A0000 and not from E0000? bochsout.txt says 'VBE Bochs Display Extension Enabled'. In Bochs-config vbe is enabled (vga: extension=vbe). I know that the videomemory of lower resolutions (e.g. I'd like to use PM because of the 32bits and the LFB (no paging). However they do if I write to A0000 but only A0000-C0000 memory (128Kb) is mapped. Later I switch to protected mode(PM) and write data to E0000, but no pixels appear. E0000 because of segment:offset, or 0圎0000000 in flat addressing but that memory doesn't exist because it's almost 3.5Gb). I get the vga-info (available modes, address of linear framebuffer(LFB)) and then switch to 1024*768*24 in real mode.Īccording to the vga-info mode 118h (1024*768*24) is supported and the LFB is from E000:0000 (i.e. It works fine but there is a problem I haven't managed to cope with.

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