Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] hw/display: Add basic ATI VGA emulation

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 3/3/19 4:40 PM, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> On Sunday, March 3, 2019, BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> At least two machines, the PPC mac99 and MIPS fulong2e, have an ATI
>> gfx chip by default (Rage 128 Pro and M6/RV100 respectively) and
>> guests running on these and the PMON2000 firmware of the fulong2e
>> expect this to be available. Fortunately these are very similar chips
>> so they can be mostly emulated in the same device model. This patch
>> adds basic emulation of these ATI VGA chips.
> 
> 
> I am not familiar enough with display/graphics code in QEMU to give this
> patch an official "reviewed-by", but from the standpoint of MIPS (Fulong 2E
> is a MIPS-based board), this patch is a desirable one, and we want it, if
> possible, even before March 12th (the planned soft freeze date). Though, I
> am not rushing anyone in any way. So, FWIW:
> 
> Acked-by: Aleksandar Markovic <address@hidden>

Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>

Using
$ qemu-system-mips64el -M fulong2e -bios pmon_2e.bin -device ati-vga

Regards,

Phil.

>> While this is incomplete and currently only enough to run the MIPS
>> firmware and get framebuffer output with Linux, it allows the fulong2e
>> board to work more like the real hardware and having it in QEMU in
>> this state provides a way to experiment with it and allows others to
>> contribute to improve it. It is compiled for all archs but only the
>> fulong2e (which currently has no display output at all) is set to use
>> it by default (in a patch sent separately).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden>