Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add a generic vga device type for that specified by '-device'

[Andreas Färber]

Am 06.03.2014 15:33, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> Il 06/03/2014 14:37, Mark Wu ha scritto:
>> Thanks for your reply!  I need confirm I am understanding your comments
>> correctly.  I think you're suggesting to traverse the pci devices and
>> check if it owns the I/O port 0x3d4 to detect if the vga device
>> is initialized.    But it seems not be able to resolve the bug. Because
>> the machine initialization code runs before the generic device
>> initialization, the I/O port 0x3d4 will not be registered at the time
>> machine initializes.  So it can't change the return value of
>> pci_vga_init.  The return value is checked in ppc code, which causes the
>> bug.
> 
> Right.  What about looking for any PCI device with VGA class?

Since VGA doesn't need to be PCI (e.g., ISA, SysBus) maybe it would be a
good idea to add a QOM interface to those devices?

Regards,
Andreas

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