From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] video bios execution
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:09:02 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1068959342.5018.54.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311151921.08675.marc.dietrich@physik.uni-giessen.de>
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 05:21, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to use qemu for executing a video bios to initialize a graphics
> card on a non i386 (here powerpc) machine? I have a ati mach64 graphics card,
> a b/w G3 and a Motorola Powerstack for testing.
You'd need to wire the real IOs some way, and fake the VGA memory that
is not available on the Macs at least, but it should be possible.
There are projects already doing just that though, look at the uBoot
bootloader (used by the recent Amiga PPC machines) and XFree's Int10
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-16 6:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-15 18:21 [Qemu-devel] video bios execution Marc Dietrich
2003-11-15 19:11 ` [Qemu-devel] ATAPI CDROM errors with NetBSD J. Mayer
2003-11-16 5:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2003-11-16 9:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [BUG] soft-mmu is buggy J. Mayer
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2003-11-16 13:10 [Qemu-devel] video bios execution Marc Dietrich
2003-11-16 23:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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