Instead of winging it with "width * 4", use the actual pitch since it
may be different.
This makes the kernel text console show up in native 1368x768 on my
ThinkPad X250. :^)
Not sure how it's useful to do so, let's not assert if something tries
to disable it. If we will use TextModeConsole as a boot console, that
console will be disabled after loading an appropriate console to replace
it.
Instead, we can construct this type of object without having to
instantiate a VGACompatibleAdapter object first.
This can help instantiate such console very early on boot to aid debug
issues on bare metal hardware.
Instead of seeing a black screen until GraphicsManagement was fully
initialized, this allows us to see the console output much earlier.
So, if the bootloader provided us with a framebuffer, set up a console
as early as possible.
The GenericFramebufferConsoleImpl class implements the logic without
taking into account any other details such as synchronization. The
GenericFramebufferConsole class then is a simple wrapper around
GenericFramebufferConsoleImpl that takes care of synchronization.
This allows us to re-use this implementation with e.g. different
synchronization schemes.
Apparently there was a wrong calculation result when we sent parameters
from TextModeConsole::clear_vga_row method - and we should stick to the
x, y mechanism of the clear method instead of doing the same calculation
which made it to happen twice actually.
This expands the reach of error propagation greatly throughout the
kernel. Sadly, it also exposes the fact that we're allocating (and
doing other fallible things) in constructors all over the place.
This patch doesn't attempt to address that of course. That's work for
our future selves.
The default template argument is only used in one place, and it
looks like it was probably just an oversight. The rest of the Kernel
code all uses u8 as the type. So lets make that the default and remove
the unused template argument, as there doesn't seem to be a reason to
allow the size to be customizable.
These functions are only used from within `dbgln_if` calls, so in
certain build configurations, they go unused. Similarly to variables, we
now signal to the compiler that we understand that these are not always
in use.
Currently, Kernel::Graphics::FramebufferConsole is written assuming that
the underlying framebuffer memory exists in physically contiguous
memory. There are a bunch of framebuffer devices that would need to use
the components of FramebufferConsole (in particular access to the kernel
bitmap font rendering logic). To reduce code duplication, framebuffer
console has been split into two parts, the abstract
GenericFramebufferConsole class which does the rendering, and the
ContiguousFramebufferConsole class which contains all logic related to
managing the underling vm object.
Also, a new flush method has been added to the class, to support devices
that require an extra flush step to render.
If we tried to change the resolution before of this patch, we triggered
a kernel crash due to mmaping the framebuffer device again.
Therefore, on mmaping of the framebuffer device, we create an entire new
set of VMObjects and Regions for the new settings.
Then, when we change the resolution, the framebuffersconsole needs to be
updated with the new resolution and also to be refreshed with the new
settings. To ensure we handle both shrinking of the resolution and
growth of it, we only copy the right amount of available data from the
cells Region.
This fixes a bug that was reported on this discord server by
@ElectrodeYT - due to the confusion of passing arguments in different
orders, we messed up and triggered a page fault due to faulty sizes.
As we removed the support of VBE modesetting that was done by GRUB early
on boot, we need to determine if we can modeset the resolution with our
drivers, and if not, we should enable text mode and ensure that
SystemServer knows about it too.
Also, SystemServer should first check if there's a framebuffer device
node, which is an indication that text mode was not even if it was
requested. Then, if it doesn't find it, it should check what boot_mode
argument the user specified (in case it's self-test). This way if we
try to use bochs-display device (which is not VGA compatible) and
request a text mode, it will not honor the request and will continue
with graphical mode.
Also try to print critical messages with mininum memory allocations
possible.
In LibVT, We make the implementation flexible for kernel-specific
methods that are implemented in ConsoleImpl class.
