Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

Cc'ing Alex

On 07/13/15 12:15, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13/07/2015 09:32, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>> and virtio-vga is only compiled on 64-bit Intel?
>>
>> There is virtio-gpu-pci ...
>>
>> Any specific reason why we need vga compatibility on !x86?
> 
> I was actually thinking about 32-bit x86. :)  I agree that !x86 is not
> necessary.

I disagree :)

(This is actually my more important followup to this thread; the other
message I just couldn't resist sending.)

Gerd recently contributed virtio-vga support to OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe:

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/94210dc9

That support depends on vga compat. All fine.

What's probably not obvious is that I had ported
PcAtChipsetPkg/PciHostBridgeDxe to ArmVirtPkg -- which drives Alex's
generic PCIe host bridge, exposed on qemu-system-(arm|aarch64) -M virt
-- and included OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe in the ArmVirtQemu.dsc build too.

That means you can currently stick a -device VGA into -M virt, and it
will work. Since OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe recognizes virtio-vga (see edk2
94210dc9 again), and the driver is included by ArmVirtQemu.dsc, I think
it would be probably useful to build the device model for arm/aarch64
targets too.

See also QEMU commit 332261de2b (together with its parent commits).

Thanks
Laszlo