Re: [Qemu-devel] vgabios + qemu: issues and plans.

2010-05-06 Thread Isaku Yamahata
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 03:38:21PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > Today we have two vgabios versions in qemu: The standard one > (vgabios.bin) and the cirrus one (vgabios-cirrus.bin). > > The cirrus vgabios is a PCI ROM. We can (and do) load it into the ROM > PCI bar. The vgabios ch

Re: [Qemu-devel] vgabios + qemu: issues and plans.

2010-05-06 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
First, I'd like to be able to load the vgabios via PCI ROM bar on all pci vga cards (stdvga, vmware, soon qxl). The PCI ID in the bios has to match the PCI ID of the card, so we'll need a bunch of vga bios binaries, all identical except for the PCI ID. Or we need some kind of binary patching. O

[Qemu-devel] vgabios + qemu: issues and plans.

2010-05-05 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, Today we have two vgabios versions in qemu: The standard one (vgabios.bin) and the cirrus one (vgabios-cirrus.bin). The cirrus vgabios is a PCI ROM. We can (and do) load it into the ROM PCI bar. The vgabios checks the pci config space to figure where the linear framebuffer (for vesa