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To: daniel tian <daniel.xntian@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

Am 11.02.2010 07:40, schrieb daniel tian:
> 2010/2/7 Stefan Weil<weil@mail.berlios.de>:
>    
>> Aurelien Jarno schrieb:
>>      
>>> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:23:01PM +0800, daniel tian wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Hi, Aurelien Jarno:
>>>>
>>>> I just encounter a problem in running kernel on qemu mips malta board,
>>>> I don't know how to bring up the graphic mode.
>>>> with the option --nographic, it's ok: the kernel and rootfs run successfully.
>>>>
>>>> But I after removing the --nographic, qemu window is black-blank, no
>>>> single word was displayed.
>>>>
>>>> I am wondering whether the graphic mode is supported in qemu mips-malta board.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> I personally haven't been able to get the graphic mode working with
>>> mips-malta, but patches are welcome.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> At least framebuffer works for me (Tux in upper left corner
>> during boot) with all malta variants (big/little endian 32/64 bit).
>>
>>      
> so what the command to bringup qemu?
>
> Anyways, thanks for you guys suggestions.
>    


For linux, you need cirrusfb - either compiled into the kernel
(CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS=y) or loaded as a module.

Then the default options should be sufficient for malta.