From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AF8SZ-00044J-K7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 03:47:15 -0500 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AF8Rz-0003tD-Aa for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 03:47:10 -0500 Received: from [213.41.78.25] (helo=smtp-ft1.fr.colt.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AF8Ry-0003sz-RK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 03:46:39 -0500 Received: from alcor.imaginet.fr (alcor.imaginet.fr [195.68.86.12]) by smtp-ft1.fr.colt.net with ESMTP id h9U8kbp30006 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:46:37 +0100 Received: from gw.netgem.com ([195.68.2.34]:62642 helo=free.fr) by alcor.imaginet.fr with esmtp (Exim) id 1AF8U5-0006px-V9 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:48:50 +0100 Message-ID: <3FA0CFEC.8050007@free.fr> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:46:36 +0100 From: Fabrice Bellard MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Roadmap for adding non-x86 system mode emulation support? References: <3FA068E3.5060806@free.fr> <1067482401.1653.26.camel@shawn.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Can you send me more info about your X11 server (number of bits per pixel, endianness) ? The output of xdpyinfo would suffice. Thank you, Fabrice. Leigh Dyer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 12:26, Fabrice Bellard wrote: > >>Chad Page wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Fabrice Bellard wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Chad Page wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I'd still like to get a feel for what's needed to make that work - >>>>>I'm itching to get it working on my iBook, and would like to help. >>>> >>With the latest commits I was able to launch an x86 Linux kernel on a >>PowerPC Linux box :-) >> >>I am interested to know if the VGA emulation works too as I don't have >>X11 access to a PowerPC system. Using the image 'linux.img' available on >>the web site would be a good test. >> > > > I just compiled current CVS on my Debian Unstable PowerPC machine > (changing "regs" to "gregs" in cpu-exec.c). VGA text modes are very > badly corrupted - no actual text ever appears, only character-sized > blocks of colour. In some cases (such as the lilo menu screen) it seems > to get the background colours right at least, but the POST screen has > blocks of colour in various places that don't seem to represent anything > at all. > > Graphical VGA modes seem to be a bit more successful. The linux.img > image didn't want to boot, but my Debian Woody image, with a 2.4.18 > kernel using vga16fb, did - the palette looks a bit wrong (the text is > all yellow, for instance), but apart from that it looks fine. > > If you'd like screenshots of any of this, please let me know and I'll > see what I can do. > > Thanks > Leigh > > >>Fabrice. >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Qemu-devel mailing list >>Qemu-devel@nongnu.org >>http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > >