Re: extended vga modes?

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
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>> 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
> kvm/vgabios in qemu-kvm.git).

Oh my.  So we all overlooked it.  I asked you several times
about the bios sources, in 0.12 seabios were supposed to be
in roms/seabios (which is still empty in the release), and
I thought vgabios should be in roms/vgabios (which is empty
too), and concluded it were dropped from qemu-kvm tarball.
But you're right, and I by mistake take vgabios sources from
upstream qemu when building Debian package, instead of using
the old'good sources from kvm/vgabios.  What a mess!... :(

And it looks like that it's time to remove at least parts of
this mess, don't you think?  How about pushing the vgabios
changes to qemu and moving it to the same place where it is
in qemu?  Does it make sense?

There were another patch mentioned recently when I asked for
bios sources origin a few days ago which probably should be
applied as well...

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>> Should vgabios in qemu include that patch?

>> See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501545
> 
> Looks like Fedora was using the upstream vgabios for a while, not the
> version in qemu-kvm.git.

Yes they are still using upstream but they also
applied the patches missing in there.

Thank you for the prompt response.  Now I think all
confusion is cleared.

/mjt