From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37840 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P7tuT-0006sT-Q0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:54:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P7tuS-0002BV-Ps for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:54:09 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:56702) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P7tuS-0002BF-F5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:54:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4CBC89BB.4030105@mail.berlios.de> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:54:03 +0200 From: Stefan Weil MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] pci: Automatically patch PCI device id in PCI ROM References: <1287175867-7757-1-git-send-email-weil@mail.berlios.de> <4CBC1BA8.7030604@redhat.com> <4CBC2C7A.4000803@mail.berlios.de> <4CBC3572.6000908@redhat.com> <4CBC48A0.3030701@mail.berlios.de> <4CBC4C0F.3060204@redhat.com> <4CBC6CDB.109@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4CBC6CDB.109@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: Markus Armbruster , QEMU Developers , "Michael S. Tsirkin" Am 18.10.2010 17:50, schrieb Gerd Hoffmann: > On 10/18/10 15:30, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >>>> When following this argumentation the vendor id sanity check shouldn't >>>> be there in the first place ;) >>> >>> The sanity check is simply there because I had no test case >>> which patches the vendor id. How could I test with vga bios? >> >> No trivial way as the vgabios needs to be patched to handle that. > > patchrom branches available now: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~kraxel/vgabios/log/ > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/qemu/log/?h=patchrom > > very short instructions: > > (1) fetch+compile vgabios, copy new vgabios-pci binary > so qemu can find it. > (2) fetch qemu, apply/merge id patching, compile qemu > (3) both standard and vmware vga should happily work > with the same vgabios binary now, including vesa > graphic modes. > > cheers, > Gerd > Hi Gerd, a new patch which also modifies the vendor id will follow immediately. Perhaps you can try it with your modified vga bios. Cheers, Stefan