Plain old VGA text mode functionality was introduced in 1987, and is
obviously still used on some (even modern) x86 machines.
However, it's very limited in what it gives to us, because by using a
80x25 text mode console, it's guaranteed that no desktop functionality
is available during such OS runtime session.
It's also quite complicated to handle access arbitration on the VGA ISA
ports which means that only one VGA card can work in VGA mode, which
makes it very cumbersome to manage multiple cards at once.
Since we never relied on the VGA text mode console for anything serious,
as booting on a QEMU machine always gives a proper framebuffer to work
with, VGA text mode console was used in bare metal sessions due to lack
of drivers.
However, since we "force" multiboot-compatible bootloaders to provide us
a framebuffer, it's basically a non-issue to have a functional console
on bare metal machines even if we don't have the required drivers.
Like the HID, Audio and Storage subsystem, the Graphics subsystem (which
handles GPUs technically) exposes unix device files (typically in /dev).
To ensure consistency across the repository, move all related files to a
new directory under Kernel/Devices called "GPU".
Also remove the redundant "GPU" word from the VirtIO driver directory,
and the word "Graphics" from GraphicsManagement.{h,cpp} filenames.
2023-06-06 00:40:32 +02:00
Renamed from Kernel/Graphics/GraphicsManagement.h (Browse further)
