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

[Sebastian Herbszt]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> > > 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. Otherwise seabios will not load them from the PCI ROM
> > > bar.
> >
> > vgabios could be build multiple times with PCIBIOS set and VENDOR_ID and
> > DEVICE_ID supplied from the Makefile like it's already done with
> > VGABIOS_DATE.
>
> Yes, something like this I have in mind.
>
> Works for stdvga and qxl.  vmware fails as it has the memory at pci 
> region 1 (region 0 has ioports) and it seems vgabios isn't prepared to 
> handle that ...

Do you mean vgabios currently doesn't work with qemu and "-vga vmware" ?

> Anyone knows what the best place to send patches to is? 
> vgabios-developers list @ savannah looks pretty much dead.  It has one 
> (!) message in 2009 which is an unanswered question.
>
> Or is upstream dead anyway and we should just go with 
> http://git.qemu.org/vgabios.git/ ?

> From the "amount" of messages on the mailing list i conclude vgabios
just works good enough for most people. I would not say the developement
is dead, but event driven and there is no itch to strach at the moment.

Try sending patches to the mailing list and/or the vgabios home at
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/vgabios .

Sebastian

> cheers,
>   Gerd