Re: [Qemu-devel] VGA BIOS source code

[Antony T Curtis]

On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 15:43, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
> > I am trying to get SVGA graphics modes to work under Windows 98. 
> > Currently, the only known way of accomplishing this is to install SDD 7 
> > beta, which is a 21 day test version, along with some obscure VxD file. 
> > I'd prefer to fix the VBE support and be able to run SDD 6.53, which is 
> > free.
> > [...]
> 
> Today, someone sent me a patch to emulate a CLGD54xx VGA card in QEMU 
> (currently ISA only card, but I asked the author to add PCI support). It 
> may be a good solution for Win 9x as I won't have time to work on the 
> planned Sis 6326 emulation in the near future.

Sounds great... Somewhere, I have the Cirrus Logic CL-GD542X/3X Hardware
Reference manual. The 542X Cirrus Logic chips are a good one to emulate
because they are a good no-frills chip which are simple to program
directly and (in the VLB/PCI versions) have a simple linear frame buffer
and memory mapped I/O.
-- 
Antony T Curtis <address@hidden>