From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ALG84-00038T-Cy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 01:11:24 -0500 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ALG7Y-0002Qz-A6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 01:11:23 -0500 Received: from [203.43.225.34] (helo=griffin-can-au.getin2net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ALG7X-0002OI-9y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 01:10:51 -0500 Received: from gaston ([10.100.1.33]) by griffin-can-au.getin2net.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hAG59NU10394 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:09:23 +1100 Received: from benh by gaston with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ALF9j-0001OC-00 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:09:03 +1100 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] video bios execution From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-Reply-To: <200311151921.08675.marc.dietrich@physik.uni-giessen.de> References: <200311151921.08675.marc.dietrich@physik.uni-giessen.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1068959342.5018.54.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:09:02 +1100 Sender: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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.