Re: [Qemu-devel] S3 VGA

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Umm, have you got the full spec for one of their chips? is this one of their 
Xabre line or something older?

Also, Do you have any idea about performance gains from emulating this chip 
rather then the VESA graphics that there's today?

Thanks,
Hetz

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From: Fabrice Bellard <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Sent: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 23:19:37 +0200
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] S3 VGA is deprecated - another graphic card will be 
emulated. Which one?

> Martin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I found in lates cvs hw/vga.c "S3 VGA is deprecated - another graphic 
> > card will be emulated"
> > and #define CONFIG_S3VGA is commeted out.
> > I am curious, what card will be emulated?
> > The good thing about emulating a S3 was that it is one of the three most 
> > used graphic cards on rs6000 powerpc prep hardware (the ibm GXT110P pci 
> > graphics card is a S3 card). So emulating this would mean emulating 
> > quite accurately real prep hardware.
> > The other cards used on real rs6000 prep hardware are mostly matrox 
> > based (similar to G200) or IBM proprietary.
> > So I am curious what the plans are for vga.
> 
> The current target is an SiS PCI VGA card.
> 
> Fabrice.
> 
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