Re: [Qemu-devel] vgabios vs. vgabios-cirrus?

[Volker Ruppert]

Hi!

> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:49 PM, C. W. Betts <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I think the reason why we have two VGA BIOSes is because one is for the
> > original, non-cirrus VGA card, while the other one is for the Cirrus
> > card. The latter is used by default on I386.
>
> But this still doesnt answer my question: what is the difference
> between these two BIOS, and why I should use one but not the other.

The vgabios.bin is designed for standard VGA with Bochs VBE (8 MB adapter that 
doesn't exist as real hardware). The vgabios-cirrus.bin should be used for 
the CL-GD5446 adapter. Qemu uses the Cirrus adapter and it's vgabios by 
default, unless you use the -std-vga switch.

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Bye

Volker