Re: [Qemu-ppc] problem booting 2 ppc isos

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 14/06/13 01:31, Alexander Graf wrote:

> > What command line options are you passing to QEMU? Newer kernels seem to want a 
> > 32-bit display depth, e.g. -g 1024x768x32
>
> So does that mean we should make 32bit the default?

Well from a quick test of my PPC ISOs I would say that the default needs 
to be 8pp or 32bpp - the current default of 15bpp seems to break pretty 
much everything apart from Linux :/

8bpp works well for everything except for openBSD, and 32bpp works for 
everything I have so far. The one thing I have noticed is that the 
display font appears fainter in Linux at 32bpp compared to 8bpp. As an 
example, try booting something like openSUSE-11.1-NET-ppc.iso with -g 
1024x768x8 vs. -g 1024x768x32 and you'll see the difference.


ATB,

Mark.