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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Subject: extended vga modes?
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:20:53 +0300
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After updating qemu-kvm Debian package to 0.12
we've a bugreport about missing video modes which
were present in previous versions.  Big thanks to
the original reporter, Bj=F8rn Mork, who found what
the issue is.  See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D572991
for the bugreport in question, together with the
resolution.

In short, when vgabios were dropped from qemu-kvm
(for whatever yet unknown reason), all local changes
to it were dropped too, including this patch:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dvirt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git;a=3Dcommitdiff;h=3Debf=
ac597cf

Note that this patch is present in upstream 0.6c version
of vgabios, but not in 0.6b+ which is currently used in
qemu.

Should vgabios in qemu include that patch?

See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D501545

Thanks!

/mjt