Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] pci: Automatically patch PCI device id in PCI ROM

[Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>]

Am 18.10.2010 17:50, schrieb Gerd Hoffmann:
> On 10/18/10 15:30, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>   Hi,
>>
>>>> When following this argumentation the vendor id sanity check shouldn't
>>>> be there in the first place ;)
>>>
>>> The sanity check is simply there because I had no test case
>>> which patches the vendor id. How could I test with vga bios?
>>
>> No trivial way as the vgabios needs to be patched to handle that.
>
> patchrom branches available now:
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~kraxel/vgabios/log/
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/qemu/log/?h=patchrom
>
> very short instructions:
>
> (1) fetch+compile vgabios, copy new vgabios-pci binary
>     so qemu can find it.
> (2) fetch qemu, apply/merge id patching, compile qemu
> (3) both standard and vmware vga should happily work
>     with the same vgabios binary now, including vesa
>     graphic modes.
>
> cheers,
>   Gerd
>

Hi Gerd,

a new patch which also modifies the vendor id will follow
immediately. Perhaps you can try it with your modified vga bios.

Cheers,
Stefan