From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NpJ3I-0002C5-IL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:22:08 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39968 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NpJ3H-0002BP-I8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:22:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NpJ3F-0003Gl-Rg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:22:07 -0500 Received: from mail-pw0-f45.google.com ([209.85.160.45]:55800) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NpJ3F-0003GZ-HR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:22:05 -0500 Received: by pwi2 with SMTP id 2so148881pwi.4 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:22:04 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4B94DB61.6020505@redhat.com> References: <4B94CF85.7000805@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <4B94D7A6.4040008@redhat.com> <4B94DA7F.3010705@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <4B94DB61.6020505@redhat.com> From: Roy Tam Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:21:44 +0800 Message-ID: <473191351003100221r3b29a510td8c95aff3004d2fa@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: extended vga modes? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: Michael Tokarev , QEMU Devel list , KVM list 2010/3/8 Avi Kivity : > On 03/08/2010 01:07 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> [] >> >>>> >>>> In short, when vgabios were dropped from qemu-kvm >>>> (for whatever yet unknown reason), >>>> >>> >>> What do you mean? qemu-kvm still carries a local vgabios (see >>> kvm/vgabios in qemu-kvm.git). >>> >> >> Oh my. So we all overlooked it. I asked you several times >> about the bios sources, in 0.12 seabios were supposed to be >> in roms/seabios (which is still empty in the release), and >> I thought vgabios should be in roms/vgabios (which is empty >> too), and concluded it were dropped from qemu-kvm tarball. >> But you're right, and I by mistake take vgabios sources from >> upstream qemu when building Debian package, instead of using >> the old'good sources from kvm/vgabios. What a mess!... :( >> >> And it looks like that it's time to remove at least parts of >> this mess, don't you think? How about pushing the vgabios >> changes to qemu and moving it to the same place where it is >> in qemu? Does it make sense? >> > > We can't push the changes to qemu since qemu.git doesn't have a vgabios > fork. We might push the changes upstream. Best of all if the seabios thing > repeats itself with vgabios so we have maintainable and maintained vga > firmware. > actually they do. see vgasrc directory in seabios.git. but it is very incomplete: no cirrus support, no vbe. > -- > error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function > > > >