Re: [Qemu-devel] PPC: VGA broken in git master

[Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 04:16:54PM +0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 05/03/12 15:48, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 
> >>>Can you provide the command line needed to reproduce the problem?
> >>
> >>Sure. I can reproduce it here using something as simple as:
> >>
> >>./qemu-system-ppc -cdrom /dev/null -boot d -vnc :1
> >>
> >>What you'll see is that the framebuffer remains black in your VNC
> >>client, as opposed to displaying the OpenBIOS startup banner.
> >>
> >>Note that de58ac72b6a062d1a61478284c0c0f8a0428613e (and the previous
> >>commit) have a qdev bug which segfaults qemu-system-ppc on startup,
> >>however the attached patch will resolve this for you.
> >>
> >>I've also confirmed over the weekend that the bug also affects
> >>SPARC64, although testing shows that SPARC32 still seems to work okay.
> >
> >
> >Turned out that -vga std was broken cross-target.  Please check
> >
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git memory/urgent
> >
> >for a fix.
> 
> Hi Avi,
> 
> I've just tested your patchset against git master and it looks good
> here - VGA for both PPC and SPARC64 now works again.
> 

And x86_64-softmmu (just two last patches from memory/urgent).

> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Mark.
>