[Qemu-devel] Re: qemu curses driver

[Blue Swirl]

> I only have no way to see whether everything works because I didn't
> even find a working BIOS image for Sparc 64, but it should be fine.
> Do the video adapters used in Sparc 32 machines really have nothing
> like a text mode?

No, they are just frame buffers converting pixel data to RGB. For example, a 
machine would start directly in 1024x768x24bit mode. Boot prom provides some 
primitive text output functions, but Linux very early starts to use its own 
frame buffer drivers.

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