Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: extended vga modes?

[Roy Tam]

2010/3/8 Avi Kivity <address@hidden>:
> On 03/08/2010 01:07 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
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>> Avi Kivity wrote:
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>>>> In short, when vgabios were dropped from qemu-kvm
>>>> (for whatever yet unknown reason),
>>>>
>>>
>>> What do you mean?  qemu-kvm still carries a local vgabios (see
>>> kvm/vgabios in qemu-kvm.git).
>>>
>>
>> Oh my.  So we all overlooked it.  I asked you several times
>> about the bios sources, in 0.12 seabios were supposed to be
>> in roms/seabios (which is still empty in the release), and
>> I thought vgabios should be in roms/vgabios (which is empty
>> too), and concluded it were dropped from qemu-kvm tarball.
>> But you're right, and I by mistake take vgabios sources from
>> upstream qemu when building Debian package, instead of using
>> the old'good sources from kvm/vgabios.  What a mess!... :(
>>
>> And it looks like that it's time to remove at least parts of
>> this mess, don't you think?  How about pushing the vgabios
>> changes to qemu and moving it to the same place where it is
>> in qemu?  Does it make sense?
>>
>
> We can't push the changes to qemu since qemu.git doesn't have a vgabios
> fork.  We might push the changes upstream.  Best of all if the seabios thing
> repeats itself with vgabios so we have maintainable and maintained vga
> firmware.
>

actually they do. see vgasrc directory in seabios.git.
but it is very incomplete: no cirrus support, no vbe.

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