From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BUw0X-00015c-Ml for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 19:15:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BUw0X-00015Q-2d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 19:15:53 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BUw0W-00015N-VG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 19:15:53 -0400 Received: from [62.253.162.222] (helo=queue2-svc.ntlworld.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BUw06-00082K-Gm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 19:15:26 -0400 Received: from [10.10.10.100] ([81.107.87.144]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20040531151115.XXQG8778.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@[10.10.10.100]> for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 16:11:15 +0100 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VGA BIOS source code From: Antony T Curtis In-Reply-To: <40BB4496.2070205@bellard.org> References: <40BB3784.9020202@fabianowski.de> <40BB4496.2070205@bellard.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1086016336.347.89.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 16:12:16 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 15:43, Fabrice Bellard wrote: > Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > > I am trying to get SVGA graphics modes to work under Windows 98. > > Currently, the only known way of accomplishing this is to install SDD 7 > > beta, which is a 21 day test version, along with some obscure VxD file. > > I'd prefer to fix the VBE support and be able to run SDD 6.53, which is > > free. > > [...] > > Today, someone sent me a patch to emulate a CLGD54xx VGA card in QEMU > (currently ISA only card, but I asked the author to add PCI support). It > may be a good solution for Win 9x as I won't have time to work on the > planned Sis 6326 emulation in the near future. Sounds great... Somewhere, I have the Cirrus Logic CL-GD542X/3X Hardware Reference manual. The 542X Cirrus Logic chips are a good one to emulate because they are a good no-frills chip which are simple to program directly and (in the VLB/PCI versions) have a simple linear frame buffer and memory mapped I/O. -- Antony T Curtis