Cc'ing Alex
On 07/13/15 12:15, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 13/07/2015 09:32, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
and virtio-vga is only compiled on 64-bit Intel?
There is virtio-gpu-pci ...
Any specific reason why we need vga compatibility on !x86?
I was actually thinking about 32-bit x86. :) I agree that !x86 is not
necessary.
I disagree :)
(This is actually my more important followup to this thread; the other
message I just couldn't resist sending.)
Gerd recently contributed virtio-vga support to OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe:
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/94210dc9
That support depends on vga compat. All fine.
What's probably not obvious is that I had ported
PcAtChipsetPkg/PciHostBridgeDxe to ArmVirtPkg -- which drives Alex's
generic PCIe host bridge, exposed on qemu-system-(arm|aarch64) -M virt
-- and included OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe in the ArmVirtQemu.dsc build too.
That means you can currently stick a -device VGA into -M virt, and it
will work. Since OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe recognizes virtio-vga (see edk2