From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BUpoB-0004Gw-Fl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 12:38:43 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BUpo9-0004GE-7v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 12:38:42 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BUpo9-0004Fx-6Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 12:38:41 -0400 Received: from [62.253.162.41] (helo=mta01-svc.ntlworld.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BUpno-0007ZR-GM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 12:38:20 -0400 Received: from [10.10.10.100] ([81.107.87.144]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20040531163752.HAAO19746.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@[10.10.10.100]> for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 17:37:52 +0100 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VGA BIOS source code From: Antony T Curtis In-Reply-To: <1086011986.347.77.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> References: <40BB3784.9020202@fabianowski.de> <1086011986.347.77.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1086021492.347.95.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 17:38:12 +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 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? --