Now that the old PCI::Device was removed, we can complete the PCI
changes by making the PCI::DeviceController to be named PCI::Device.
Really the entire purpose and the distinction between the two was about
interrupts, but since this is no longer a problem, just rename it to
simplify things further.
This makes for nicer handling of errors compared to checking whether a
RefPtr is null. Additionally, this will give way to return different
types of errors in the future.
We use a switch-case statements to ensure we try to find the best
suitable driver for a specific graphics card. In case we don't find
such, we use the default statement to initialize the graphics card as a
generic VGA adapter, if the adapter is VGA compatible.
If we couldn't initialize the driver, we don't touch this adapter
anymore.
Also, GraphicsDevice should not be tied to a PCI::Address member, as it
can be theortically be used with other buses (e.g. ISA cards).
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 have a VGA-capable graphics adapter that we support, we should
prefer it over any legacy VGA because we wouldn't use it in legacy VGA
mode in this case.
This solves the problem where we would only use the legacy VGA card
when both a legacy VGA card as well as a VGA-mode capable adapter is
present.
It seems like overly-specific classes were written for no good reason.
Instead of making each adapter to have its own unique FramebufferDevice
class, let's generalize everything to keep implementation more
consistent.
If we create a VGACompatibleAdapter object with a preset framebuffer,
Always assign the console so we can use it.
This is useful for modesetting done by a Multiboot loader, like GRUB.
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.
This new subsystem is replacing the old code that was used to
create device nodes of framebuffer devices in /dev.
This subsystem includes for now 3 roles:
1. GraphicsManagement singleton object that is used in the boot
process to enumerate and initialize display devices.
2. GraphicsDevice(s) that are used to control the display adapter.
3. FramebufferDevice(s) that are used to control the device node in
/dev.
For now, we support the Bochs display adapter and any other
generic VGA compatible adapter that was configured by the boot
loader to a known and fixed resolution.
Two improvements in the Bochs display adapter code are that
we can support native bochs-display device (this device doesn't
expose any VGA capabilities) and also that we use the MMIO region,
to configure the device, instead of setting IO ports for such tasks.
