Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH] vga: add mmio bar to standard vga

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 09/18/12 12:32, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 11:51 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> This patch adds a mmio bar to the qemu standard vga which allows to
>> access the standard vga registers and bochs dispi interface registers
>> via mmio.
> 
> I had a patch like that somewhere (or is that it ? :-)
> 
> I dropped it in favor of a more interesting approach doing a virtio-vga,
> which Anthony and I have been hacking on a bit, but due to time
> constraints haven't really finished at this point.

Yea, has been quiet on this front for a while, thats why I looked into this.

> In any case, I'm fine with this patch but does it help anybody ?

Well, it gives you time to finish virtio-vga ;)

I have a linux kernel driver too, although not kms/drm but fbdev.

cheers,
  Gerd