From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GsTgg-0006Uj-9E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:34:02 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GsTgb-0006Pb-Ep for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:34:01 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GsTgb-0006PQ-38 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:33:57 -0500 Received: from [193.7.176.60] (helo=mail.bawue.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GsTga-0002eE-Ly for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:33:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 00:34:28 +0000 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] New display device for MIPS Message-ID: <20061208003428.GB21819@networkno.de> References: <457897AD.1020501@mail.berlios.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <457897AD.1020501@mail.berlios.de> From: Thiemo Seufer Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Weil Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Stefan Weil wrote: > Hi, > > the latest Linux kernels contain a driver for an ASCII display > (arch/mips/mips-boards/generic/display.c). This is the driver for the ASCII display of a MIPS MALTA board. > Because this display is used by code I'm currently testing, > I implemented an emulation for QEMU (code is added to this mail). > > hw/mips_display.c - implementation > hw/mips_display.h - interface AFAICS the output interferes with the serial console output. I wonder how the typical scrolling text "Linux on MALTA" would look like in that case. :-) > I prefer to have the interface in a dedicated header file instead > of adding it to vl.h (which is already overloaded). OTOH, a file for a single prototype which still has to include vl.h makes not much sense either. Thiemo