Re: [Qemu-devel] VGA cirrus patch prevents video output

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 10:41:43PM -0400, Programmingkid wrote:
> I noticed that the video in QEMU stopped working. When I start qemu-system-ppc all I see is a black window. Not even OpenBIOS displays anything. After some bisecting I found out it was this patch that causes the problem: 
> 
> Commit 29f9cef39eb1ae55e82c6763eb22d7a1bdff7276
> Author: Sebastian Bauer <mail@sebastianbauer.info>
> Date:   Mon Jul 2 21:13:45 2018 +0200
> 
>     ppc: Include vga cirrus card into the compiling process
>     
>     Drivers for this card exists on PPC-based AmigaOS guests so it is useful to
>     allow users to emulate the graphics card for PPC machines.
>     
>     As cirrus vga is currently preferred over std(vga) in absence of any user
>     choice, this change also sets the default display of spapr machines to
>     std as otherwise qemu refuses to start these machines. Not specifying an
>     explicit graphics mode is for instance done by 'make check'.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Sebastian Bauer <mail@sebastianbauer.info>
>     Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> 
> 
> I think a solution to this problem might be to have the mac99
> machine use "-vga std" as default. When I use -vga std, video works
> again.

There are already patches in the works to fix this.


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