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Re: [Qemu-devel] vga-pci and MMIO BAR
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Gerd Hoffmann |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] vga-pci and MMIO BAR |
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Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:03:59 +0200 |
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On 07/25/12 05:57, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hi folks !
>
> Would there be any objection to adding a second MMIO BAR to qemu-vga
> which mirrors the bochs magic VBE ports ?
No.
> Once done, I'd like to look into doing a qemudrmfb similar to the cirrus
> one that pretty much gives you generic KMS support (with RandR) on top
> of vga-pci. This would have the advantage of potentially lifting the
> pitch and size limitations that plague cirrus.
Hacked up something like that a while back (patch attached). Doesn't
use DRM though, just plain old fbdev. Maybe you can reuse some bits
nevertheless.
/me wonders what the advantage of using drm is for non-3D hardware?
cheers,
Gerd
0001-add-bochs-dispi-interface-framebuffer-driver.patch
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