From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:49:22 +0000
Subject: Re: Question about removing memslots
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>, Alex Williamson <Alex.Williamson@redhat.com>

  Hi,

> As a workaround you can use -vga std or -vga qxl.  The latter will work
> even better when we have a kernel driver.

There is a kernel driver for -vga std too ;)

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/145479/

Didn't try on ppc though.  There is a funky #ifdef TARGET_I386 in
vbe_portio_list[], no idea why, but it makes me think a little tweak
could be needed to make it fly.  There shouldn't be any major roadblocks
though.

cheers,
  Gerd