From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51416) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPVFL-0003ze-8R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 03:44:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPVFK-00050v-Hf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 03:44:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:43792) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPVFK-00050q-8v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 03:44:42 -0400 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4Q7if2M020744 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 03:44:41 -0400 Received: from rincewind.home.kraxel.org (vpn1-4-50.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.4.50]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p4Q7idw3019764 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 03:44:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4DDE04E6.7000408@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 09:44:38 +0200 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1306331629-31041-1-git-send-email-alevy@redhat.com> <4DDD0CCB.2000005@redhat.com> <20110525143358.GI31654@playa.tlv.redhat.com> <4DDDF819.5030809@redhat.com> <20110526071126.GP31654@playa.tlv.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20110526071126.GP31654@playa.tlv.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] reduce reported VGA framebuffer to 8 MiB List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, >> Which qemu version? Which seabios& vgabios version? > > qemu is the spice v36 branch with some unrelated patches. > seabios + vgabios upstream (seabios with 0x9000000 size hack). > > I can retest with qemu upstream. Hmm, same here. >> >> Windows xp booting in 4bit usually indicates VBE doesn't work at >> all, trying to enable vesafb in linux fails too then. > > VBE is working fine - attached are the VBE calls made in three cases: > * -vga std > * -vga qxl with the normal 64 MB framebuffer. > * -vga qxl with 8 MB framebuffer (reported) (it's identical to the first) > > Note that this is all without the qxl driver working, but just with a windows xp install > with no qxl drivers. Same here, works fine. XP with SP3 btw, maybe this makes a difference. Can you try to boot linux with vga=0x314? cheers, Gerd