From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JvRbi-0007W0-Pe for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 02:33:58 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JvRbg-0007VE-CD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 02:33:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41928 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JvRbg-0007VB-4r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 02:33:56 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:50964) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JvRbf-0000UJ-F1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 02:33:55 -0400 From: Volker Ruppert Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vgabios vs. vgabios-cirrus? Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 08:33:39 +0200 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805120833.40191.info@vruppert.de> 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 Cc: Jun Koi Hi! > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:49 PM, C. W. Betts wrote: > > I think the reason why we have two VGA BIOSes is because one is for the > > original, non-cirrus VGA card, while the other one is for the Cirrus > > card. The latter is used by default on I386. > > But this still doesnt answer my question: what is the difference > between these two BIOS, and why I should use one but not the other. The vgabios.bin is designed for standard VGA with Bochs VBE (8 MB adapter that doesn't exist as real hardware). The vgabios-cirrus.bin should be used for the CL-GD5446 adapter. Qemu uses the Cirrus adapter and it's vgabios by default, unless you use the -std-vga switch. -- Bye Volker