Re: [Qemu-devel] VGA BIOS source code

[Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>]

On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 14:59, Antony T Curtis wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 14:47, 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.
> > 
> > Now, in order to fiddle with the VBE implementation, I need to have 
> > access to the VGA BIOS source code. QEMU is using the same lgpl BIOS as 
> > Bochs and plex86. Its homepage is http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/. 
> > However, none of the download links on that page work, the page seems to 
> > have been abandoned for some time, and all the mailing lists seem to be 
> > dead.
> > 
> > So, my question is, does anybody have the current source code used to 
> > create the lgpl VGA BIOS? The current version should be something like 0.4c.
> 
> I successfully checked it out from the CVS repository.
> 
> Instructions at http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group_id=891

Hmm... I have successfully managed to compile the VGA BIOS from source
and it appears to work...

However, the bcc compiler from the ports collection appears to have some
problems - multiply/divide/bitshift operations are not emitted and rely
on calling helper functions (missing in the vgabios source) would
obviously be much slower than neccessary.

Does anyone know of any patches for bcc?

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