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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add an isa device for SGA
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 22:00:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DCAEACA.6070008@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305133877-4163-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com>

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On 2011-05-11 19:11, Glauber Costa wrote:
> This patch adds a dummy legacy ISA device whose responsibility is to
> deploy sgabios, an option rom for a serial graphics adapter.
> The proposal is that this device is always-on when -nographics,
> but can otherwise be enable in any setup when -device sga is used.

That means bios output is written to the virtual uart? Sounds
interesting. Where do we find such an option rom?

Alternatively, what about adding serial console support to SeaBIOS? I've
seen real BIOSes that allow driving both VGA and serial in parallel.
That could be controlled via -boot and some fwcfg, just like we request
the boot menu today.

Jan


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-11 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-11 17:11 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add an isa device for SGA Glauber Costa
2011-05-11 20:00 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2011-05-11 20:57   ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2011-05-12  9:07 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-05-12 14:46 ` Gerd Hoffmann

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