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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu VGA endian swap low level drawing
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 21:23 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 13:15 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > TCG works.  Any workaround to make it fly with kvm too?
> > 
> > And win98 actually uses the hardware cursor.
> 
> Ah ok. I was trying to install NT4 here but was having problems,
> the screen would go yellow and cirrus would stop displaying anything
> when trying to "test" the resolution (without my patches, actually with
> a slightly older qemu too).
> 
> I was planning on digging more tomorrow, but I can try Win98 if that's
> easier.

NT4 works a lot better without -enable-kvm :-) (file corruption, general
bad behaviour...).

I can confirm the cursor is missing in 16bpp with cirrus on NT4 as well,
I'll play with it later this week or week-end, unless you beat me to it.

[ Let me know if you start working on it so we don't duplicate work ]

Cheers,
Ben.