Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/4] switch stdvga to pci vgabios

2010-11-17 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, This is a guest visible change... does it need -M 0.13 support? Yes, it will. I have a patch in flight which actually adds the 0.13 machine type, when this is merged I can add compat properties to handle this. > Will > live migration from 0.13 to 0.14 work? Hmm. Guess we probably

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/4] switch stdvga to pci vgabios

2010-11-17 Thread Avi Kivity
On 11/03/2010 01:56 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Make stdvga provide the new vgabios binary (with pcibios support) using the PCI option rom bar. Seabios will happily load it from there. The new vga bios will also lookup the framebuffer address in pci config space, so the magic bochs lfb @ 0xe00

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/4] switch stdvga to pci vgabios

2010-11-03 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Make stdvga provide the new vgabios binary (with pcibios support) using the PCI option rom bar. Seabios will happily load it from there. The new vga bios will also lookup the framebuffer address in pci config space, so the magic bochs lfb @ 0xe000 is not needed any more -> zap it. Without th