[Qemu-devel] Re: extended vga modes?

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 03/08/2010 12:20 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> After updating qemu-kvm Debian package to 0.12
> we've a bugreport about missing video modes which
> were present in previous versions.  Big thanks to
> the original reporter, Bjørn Mork, who found what
> the issue is.  See
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572991
> for the bugreport in question, together with the
> resolution.
>
> 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).

> all local changes
> to it were dropped too, including this patch:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git;a=commitdiff;h=ebfac597cf
>
> Note that this patch is present in upstream 0.6c version
> of vgabios, but not in 0.6b+ which is currently used in
> qemu.
>
> Should vgabios in qemu include that patch?
>
> See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501545
>
>    

Looks like Fedora was using the upstream vgabios for a while, not the 
version in qemu-kvm.git.

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