[Qemu-devel] uvesafb doesn't work with seabios

[Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de>]

Hello,

I'm using QEmu 2.0.0 on a Linux host (x86-64) with a quite special
target system that uses uvesafb ('video=uvesafb:1024x768-32'). I get
following errors in the target system:

    uvesafb: Getting mode info block for mode 0x2 failed (eax=0x4f01, err=1)
    uvesafb: Getting mode info block for mode 0x3 failed (eax=0x4f01, err=1)
    uvesafb: Getting mode info block for mode 0x4 failed (eax=0x4f01, err=1)
    uvesafb: Getting mode info block for mode 0x5 failed (eax=0x4f01, err=1)
    uvesafb: Getting mode info block for mode 0x6 failed (eax=0x4f01, err=1)
    uvesafb: Getting mode info block for mode 0x7 failed (eax=0x4f01, err=1)
    uvesafb: Getting mode info block for mode 0xd failed (eax=0x4f01, err=1)
    uvesafb: Getting mode info block for mode 0xe failed (eax=0x4f01, err=1)
    uvesafb: Getting mode info block for mode 0xf failed (eax=0x4f01, err=1)
    uvesafb: Getting mode info block for mode 0x10 failed (eax=0x4f01, err=1)
    uvesafb: Getting mode info block for mode 0x11 failed (eax=0x4f01, err=1)
    uvesafb: Getting mode info block for mode 0x12 failed (eax=0x4f01, err=1)
    uvesafb: Getting mode info block for mode 0x13 failed (eax=0x4f01, err=1)
    uvesafb: Getting mode info block for mode 0x6a failed (eax=0x4f01, err=1)
    uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22
    uvesafb: probe of uvesafb.0 failed with error -22

With QEmu 1.6, it worked. I bisected that down to following commit:

    commit 6eefccc0bb9c34051b1e21880fc3a1c1c8686edd
    Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
    Date:   Mon Dec 2 13:01:20 2013 +0100

    roms: update vgabios binaries

And indeed, when I switch 'vgabios-stdvga.bin' to the old variant, it works.

What can I do to track down the problem? I tried to build the svga bios
inside the QEMU tree, but I didn't succeed. Building it in the current
seabios git tree worked, but I got a different error...


Regards,
Bernhard