From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BY9PO-0005uo-Mj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:10:50 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BY9PO-0005uO-0C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:10:50 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BY9PN-0005uL-Tm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:10:49 -0400 Received: from [193.252.22.26] (helo=mwinf0503.wanadoo.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BY9OZ-0007Tc-I0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:09:59 -0400 Received: from bellard.org (ATuileries-112-1-3-149.w81-48.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.48.134.149]) by mwinf0503.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id C3C2E6800549 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:09:58 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40C76F2B.3040007@bellard.org> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 22:12:27 +0200 From: Fabrice Bellard MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: NE2K PCI and Windows 98SE & Cirrus Logic References: <001801c44d31$2b1291b0$0401a8c0@putte2k> <1086686104.15335.6.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> <20040608131835.O1510@edinburgh.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <20040608131835.O1510@edinburgh.cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 Derek Fawcus wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:15:05AM +0100, Antony T Curtis wrote: > >>I am still having problems with WinXP ... it appears to be trying to to >>vram to vram color-expand pattern bitblts starting from the first byte >>after the end of the current display > > > ... and this is why I was suggesting a simple BitBLT capable chip, so > as to prevent the OS from trying to do the above. 5446 _is_ a simple BitBLT capable chip. IMHO, it will be difficult to find a simpler PCI chip. The only drawback I see in this chip is that it has some ISA legacy which complicates a bit the VGA memory access. In particular, the mode 4 and mode 5 will accur a serious performance loss if they are ever used. Moreover, Windows does not use the separate 16 MB data region for the bitblt data, which will also slow down a bit the optimized version of the driver (I want to suppress the memory callback functions in the most common cases). SIS6326 would be better in that respect. Now, thanks to the work done to integrate the Cirrus VGA driver, the QEMU VGA subsystem is more generic so anyone is free to add new VGA cards :-) Fabrice.