From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH] vga: add mmio bar to standard vga
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:49:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50585FCA.3050006@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347964327.2386.52.camel@pasglop>
On 09/18/12 12:32, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 11:51 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> This patch adds a mmio bar to the qemu standard vga which allows to
>> access the standard vga registers and bochs dispi interface registers
>> via mmio.
>
> I had a patch like that somewhere (or is that it ? :-)
>
> I dropped it in favor of a more interesting approach doing a virtio-vga,
> which Anthony and I have been hacking on a bit, but due to time
> constraints haven't really finished at this point.
Yea, has been quiet on this front for a while, thats why I looked into this.
> In any case, I'm fine with this patch but does it help anybody ?
Well, it gives you time to finish virtio-vga ;)
I have a linux kernel driver too, although not kms/drm but fbdev.
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-18 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-18 9:51 [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH] vga: add mmio bar to standard vga Gerd Hoffmann
2012-09-18 10:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-09-18 11:49 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2012-09-19 9:16 ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-19 11:35 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-09-19 12:13 ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-19 18:45 ` Blue Swirl
2012-09-20 5:43 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-09-22 12:12 ` Blue Swirl
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