[Qemu-devel] Re: vgabios + qemu: issues and plans.

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

   Hi,

>> First, I'd like to be able to load the vgabios via PCI ROM bar on all
>> pci vga cards (stdvga, vmware, soon qxl). The PCI ID in the bios has
>> to match the PCI ID of the card, so we'll need a bunch of vga bios
>> binaries, all identical except for the PCI ID. Or we need some kind of
>> binary patching. Otherwise seabios will not load them from the PCI ROM
>> bar.
>
> vgabios could be build multiple times with PCIBIOS set and VENDOR_ID and
> DEVICE_ID supplied from the Makefile like it's already done with
> VGABIOS_DATE.

Yes, something like this I have in mind.

Works for stdvga and qxl.  vmware fails as it has the memory at pci 
region 1 (region 0 has ioports) and it seems vgabios isn't prepared to 
handle that ...

Anyone knows what the best place to send patches to is? 
vgabios-developers list @ savannah looks pretty much dead.  It has one 
(!) message in 2009 which is an unanswered question.

Or is upstream dead anyway and we should just go with 
http://git.qemu.org/vgabios.git/ ?

cheers,
   Gerd