From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1OA6xP-0004A2-BL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 15:42:03 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34377 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OA6xK-0003hn-Qe for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 15:42:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OA6tR-0003Ba-FC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 15:38:02 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:28408) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OA6tR-0003BC-7j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 15:37:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4BE31A8D.7090603@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 21:37:49 +0200 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4BE174CD.9030606@redhat.com> <4855E2D8011C47A797DC2460DC9919F7@FSCPC> <4BE28D5C.4060001@redhat.com> <14CF1772B7404D1CB1612DE38DC4E78B@FSCPC> In-Reply-To: <14CF1772B7404D1CB1612DE38DC4E78B@FSCPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: vgabios + qemu: issues and plans. List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Sebastian Herbszt Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, >> Works for stdvga and qxl. vmware fails as it has the memory at pci >> region 1 (region 0 has ioports) and it seems vgabios isn't prepared to >> handle that ... > > Do you mean vgabios currently doesn't work with qemu and "-vga vmware" ? It works, but uses the bochs lfb at the magic address 0xe0000000. Killing the 0xe000000 alias mapping and switching over to use the pci region instead requires some changes in pci_get_lfb_addr to handle the situation. > Try sending patches to the mailing list and/or the vgabios home at > http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/vgabios . Ok, I'll try to send my patch series down that route. thanks, Gerd