Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel][PATCH v7 3/3] spapr: Add support for -vga option

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:04:03PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:04 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > Thanks, applied to ppc-next without the USB bits. I also get the 
> > following warning now:
> > 
> > $ ./ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 -nographic -M pseries -kernel 
> > /boot/vmlinux -initrd /boot/initrd -enable-kvm -m 1G -append
> > root=/dev/null
> > This vga model is not supported,currently it only supports -vga std
> > [...]
> > 
> > Fixing with a follow-up patch. 
> 
> Right, nowadays qemu defaults to cirrus regardless of the arch which is
> annoying. In fact it even creates a vga card with -nographic, you have
> to do -vga none to avoid it which is even more annoying for us :-)

No, that's not the problem, or at least it's not the only problem.  It
actually rejected -vga none.  I fixed that in the version in my tree,
but I hadn't sent that out to Alex yet.

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