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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: extended vga modes?
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:55:34 +0200
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On 03/08/2010 12:20 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 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),

What do you mean?  qemu-kvm still carries a local vgabios (see=20
kvm/vgabios in qemu-kvm.git).

> all local changes
> to it were dropped too, including this patch:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dvirt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git;a=3Dcommitdiff;h=3De=
bfac597cf
>
> 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
>
>   =20

Looks like Fedora was using the upstream vgabios for a while, not the=20
version in qemu-kvm.git.

--=20
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