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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by crc_ on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:17AM (#45667900)
With this, I wasn't seeing any output with -display curses. It does work with -nographic or using a vnc connection to qemu's display, as well as on the two physical machines I currently have access to.
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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by coolcoder613 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @04:50PM (#45674972)
That would probably be because it is using UEFI text mode rather than VGA text mode.
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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by kragen on Friday October 24, 2025 @12:24AM (#45690752)
Oh, I didn't know UEFI text mode didn't use VGA text mode! That could be an important consideration. But I suppose you can still frob the VGA registers to set VGA text mode, right? Even if you boot under UEFI?
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Re:Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI by coolcoder613 on Friday October 24, 2025 @12:35AM (#45690812)
While that way work on some hardware, on a lot of hardware it won't.

see https://old.reddit.com/r/osdev/comments/yjm04z/vga_on_uefi/i...

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