[Qemu-devel] Re: extended vga modes?

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

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.

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