From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51418) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TDwJC-0005e2-Ep for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:49:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TDwJ6-0008Kk-Pc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:49:42 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:26581) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TDwJ6-0008Kf-HX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:49:36 -0400 Message-ID: <50585FCA.3050006@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:49:30 +0200 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1347961897-28554-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <1347964327.2386.52.camel@pasglop> In-Reply-To: <1347964327.2386.52.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH] vga: add mmio bar to standard vga List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org 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