Re: [Qemu-devel] video bios execution

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 05:21, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is it possible to use qemu for executing a video bios to initialize a 
> graphics 
> card on a non i386 (here powerpc) machine? I have a ati mach64 graphics card, 
> a b/w G3 and a Motorola Powerstack for testing.

You'd need to wire the real IOs some way, and fake the VGA memory that
is not available on the Macs at least, but it should be possible.

There are projects already doing just that though, look at the uBoot
bootloader (used by the recent Amiga PPC machines) and XFree's Int10

Ben.