From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerd Hoffmann Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 3/3] fw/pci: Allocate IGD stolen memory Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:31:41 +0100 Message-ID: <1455532301.7504.17.camel@redhat.com> References: <20160213001835.18456.46422.stgit@gimli.home> <20160213002318.18456.48603.stgit@gimli.home> <20160213024904.GA31040@morn.lan> <20160213081209.6e4342ab@t450s.home> <20160213181838.GA8842@morn.lan> <20160213115151.542d5d42@t450s.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: "Kevin O'Connor" , seabios@seabios.org, allen.m.kay@intel.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Alex Williamson Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38989 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751016AbcBOKbn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2016 05:31:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20160213115151.542d5d42@t450s.home> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, > The issue is in the VM and it occurs every time the option ROM is > executed. Standard VGA text mode displays fine (ex. SeaBIOS version > string and boot menu), but any sort of extended graphics mode (ex. live > CD boot menu) tries to make use of the host memory area which > corresponds to the stolen memory area of the physical device. I'm wondering whenever we can just use seavgabios (and support standard vga modes only). cheers, Gerd