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Re: [RFC 00/10] R300 QEMU device V2


From: Daniel P . Berrangé
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/10] R300 QEMU device V2
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:32:19 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15)

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 05:12:10PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > It does become a slight usability issue, as any users need to go and find
> > the suitable BIOS in order to use the device. No downstream OS vendors are
> > going to be able to distribute this BIOS either
> > 
> > I don't know if we have hit this problem before & if we have any
> > general policies about it ?
> 
> Booting from lsi scsi adapter used to work with a vendor bios only
> loooooong ago.  Fixed by adding an lsi driver to seabios.
> 
> Building a r300 vgabios shouldn't be too hard, we already have
> support in seavgabios for the other ati variants emulated by qemu.

That sounds reasonable, so it is fine to add r300 to QEMU without the BIOS.

Regards,
Daniel
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