gfx: the second head shows the boot, not just what comes after it
Two things, both asked for. **The crash report no longer says which monitors it reached.** "The report is on the virtio-gpu display too" was a line about the crash screen printed on the crash screen. The report says what happened and where to read it again; that is not part of it. **And the second head now shows the F8 menu and the boot.** It used to be black until vgpud started several seconds into userspace -- through the splash, through the menu, through every boot message -- which from the outside is indistinguishable from a display that does not work. Three stages now cover the whole boot and hand over to each other without coordinating: *The loader.* LocateProtocol() answers with the first GOP and offers no way to ask for the rest, so the rest are found by handle and fed the primary's framebuffer as a Blt source at the points where a screen is finished: the menu, the resolution chooser, system information, the splash, each segment of the kernel load. Blt rather than a second framebuffer to draw into, because a virtio GOP does not have one -- the same fact that made a virtio-only machine reboot-loop two commits ago. *The kernel.* gfx remembers which rows were drawn, as one span rather than a list of rectangles, because console output is lines and a span is what lines make. display_mirror_console() copies that span across: a line of boot text is one cell-row transfer, not a screen. Primed once after pci_init(), because a display that has just appeared has a black scanout and the console it should be showing was drawn by the loader into a framebuffer it knows nothing about. *Then vgpud*, from the same console framebuffer, unchanged. **Two bugs found building it, both worth the retelling.** The mirror ran per character from inside vt_feed -- which is inside the console lock -- and vga_disp_acquire() announces its back buffer with a cprintf. A CPU taking a lock it already holds, with a call chain that said exactly that. It runs at the end of consolewrite() and cprintf() now, outside the lock, which is also the better batching: one transfer per write instead of one per character. And "is this the console's own screen" was asked of the pointer acquire() returned. vga_fb hands back a back buffer it copies onto the console's framebuffer afterwards, so on a one-screen machine the answer was "a different screen" -- and the console was mirrored onto itself through two megabytes of intermediate, allocated for the purpose. display_ops grew scanout_phys, which is a fact about the hardware rather than a policy a driver can get subtly wrong, and it is asked first: it has no side effects and acquire() has two. Verified with two heads under QEMU, screendumping the virtio head every 400 ms from power-on: splash, splash, splash, then the console, and it stays. The F8 menu appears on it; choosing 1024x768 there brings both heads up at 1024x768 byte-identical. A panic still reaches both. Both supported configurations: one boot each, no traps, no panics, socktest and memfdtest green. One gap remains and is documented rather than hidden: while the kernel's driver resets the device during probe, QEMU shows "Display output is not active" for a fraction of a second. A device being taken over has no scanout until the new driver sets one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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// The crash screen, on displays other than the console's. kernel/dev/device.c.
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void display_panic_present(void);
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// Push the console's newly-drawn rows to a second display, if the kernel
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// drives one. kernel/dev/device.c.
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void display_mirror_console(void);
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uint64 display_scanout_phys(void);
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// Where a userspace display driver said it is scanning out, and which kernel
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// driver it took the device from. kernel/dev/pciuser.c.
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int pciuser_panic_surface(int idx, uint64 *paddr, int *w, int *h,
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