Re: Replacing (vga)bios.bin source code with compiled binaries?

["Niklas K." <nickie12@gmx.net>]

Am Sonntag, den 11.05.2008, 18:12 +0100 schrieb Jean Guyader:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Niklas K. <nickie12@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >  this may be a more general issue with editing source code and makefiles,
> >  but as I'm not really a developer, I can't do it on my own and I thought
> >  I'd ask you on this mailing list rather than on some general development
> >  mailing list/forum:
> >
> >  I need to get modified hvmloader and vmxloader binaries that load a
> >  modified BIOS binary. I think the easiest way to do this is to remove
> >  some parts of the makefiles included in the Xen source code and add the
> >  compiled binary to the source (what probably doesn't work: I don't know
> >  if the bios.bin is directly compiled into the hvmloader/vmxloader
> >  binaries or the compiled bios.bin is inserted into them).
> >  Can you help me in doing this?
> >
> 
> Hello Niklas,
> 
> The content of the binaries your are talking about is put into an
> header file (roms.h)
> and hvmloader use this file during the compilation process. You should
> look at the the
> Makefile in tools/firmware/hvmloader to see how roms.h is created.
> 
> Cheers,
> 

Hello again and thanks for the previous help,

I replaced my hvmloader with the one I compiled now. However, after
starting my virtual machine, I only get a white screen.
Note that the BIOS I used was written for QEMU, not Xen. Are there any
differences between the Xen bochsbios and the QEMU one?
Or may the problem be another BIOS? I do have the X11 library installed,
so I don't think that's the issue.
I only exchanged the rombios/bochsbios/bios or however you may call it,
not the vgabios.
Should I try compiling the hvmloader with the included bios and see if
it's a problem with the modified bios?

Greetings,
Niklas