Re: [Qemu-devel] booting linux 2.6 in qemu-system-ppc

[J. Mayer]

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 20:51 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 12:47 +0200, J. Mayer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:31 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > console=ttyS0 console=tty0
> > > > Note that the Open-Firmware frame-buffer support is broken in many 2.6
> > > > kernels (I mean on real Macs) 
> > > 
> > > How so ?
> > 
> > Well, there have been many issues with frame-buffer in 2.6, not only on
> > Mac platform.
> > With Open-Firmware frame buffer, I remember the first 2.6 kernels had no
> > fb output at all.
> > Then came kernels that could display a Tux penguin in psychadelic
> > colors, I guess it was drawing in 16 bits mode when the OF frame-buffer
> > is 15 bits.
> > This has been solved in more recent kernels. I don't remember in which
> > version it was fixed (but I think around 2.6.5 or 2.6.6).
> > I can easily reproduce this on my Ibook and on my Apple Network Server,
> > which means it's not a hardware-dependant bug (Ibook 2 has an ATI
> > graphic card, ANS is cirrus-logic) nor it's specific to some OF version
> > (ANS one is really old...).
> > 
> > There is now another bug with qemu: with recent 2.6 kernels, the
> > frame-buffer is recognized and console is working but it only draws
> > characters black on black background, even if I send escape sequences to
> > change the drawing color. Note that the penguin is well drawn, in those
> > cases.
> > If you have an idea of what can cause this, I'd be glad to know it ;-)
> 
> I would say the palette isn't set properly ...

Right, is this set according to some OF properties (which could be a
cause of the bug) ?
I didn't find anything like this in OF fb code, but I may have missed
it....

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