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From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 0/2] sun4m: Implement Sun CG3 framebuffer for QEMU
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:01:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5304AB23.506@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392800720-2765-1-git-send-email-mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>

Am 19.02.2014 10:05, schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland:
> This patchset provides QEMU with an implementation of the Sun CG3 8-bit
> framebuffer. It is based upon Bob Breuer's original work which has been
> rebased onto git master, and is now capable of running with an OpenBIOS CG3 
> FCode ROM instead of requiring copies of proprietary Sun ROMs.
> 
> The motivation behind this patch is that older operating systems such as
> Debian Woody and Solaris (running OpenWindows) do not contain drivers for the
> TCX framebuffer and as a result currently cannot run in graphical mode. The
> screenshots linked below show qemu-system-sparc successfully running both 
> Debian Woody and the Solaris 8 installer in graphical mode during testing:
> 
> http://www.ilande.co.uk/tmp/debian-woody.png
> http://www.ilande.co.uk/tmp/sol8-1.png
> http://www.ilande.co.uk/tmp/sol8-2.png
> 
> The CG3 framebuffer is selected by passing -vga cg3 on the command line to
> qemu-system-sparc. If either -vga tcx is specified (or the -vga argument is
> omitted) then qemu-system-sparc defaults to using the existing TCX
> framebuffer to maintain compatibility.
> 
> v3:
>     - Rebased to git master
>     - Fix DEBUG_CG3 macro
>     - Use register constants based upon Linux/BSD drivers
>     - Use qemu_log(LOG_UNIMP ... ) to capture unrecognised register accesses
>     - Rename device type from SUNW,cgthree to cgthree (matches OBP)
>     - Use error_report() instead of fprintf(stderr ... )
>     - Convert from init to realizefn
> 
> v2:
>     - Rebased to git master
>     - Updated QEMU,cgthree.bin ROM to latest OpenBIOS version
>     - Added Peter Maydell to CC
> 
> 
> Mark Cave-Ayland (2):
>   sun4m: Add Sun CG3 framebuffer and corresponding OpenBIOS FCode ROM
>   sun4m: Add Sun CG3 framebuffer initialisation function

Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>

There's some lines we could extract from the realizefn into an
instance_init, but can be done as follow-up when needed.

Two small questions, are vram_size and prom_addr for compatibility? New
convention for QOM properties would be dashes.

Regards,
Andreas

> 
>  Makefile                          |    2 +-
>  default-configs/sparc-softmmu.mak |    1 +
>  hw/display/Makefile.objs          |    1 +
>  hw/display/cg3.c                  |  384 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  hw/sparc/sun4m.c                  |   62 +++++-
>  include/sysemu/sysemu.h           |    1 +
>  pc-bios/QEMU,cgthree.bin          |  Bin 0 -> 850 bytes
>  pc-bios/README                    |    4 +-
>  vl.c                              |   24 +++
>  9 files changed, 473 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 hw/display/cg3.c
>  create mode 100644 pc-bios/QEMU,cgthree.bin
> 


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-19 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-19  9:05 [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 0/2] sun4m: Implement Sun CG3 framebuffer for QEMU Mark Cave-Ayland
2014-02-19  9:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 1/2] sun4m: Add Sun CG3 framebuffer and corresponding OpenBIOS FCode ROM Mark Cave-Ayland
2014-02-19 13:35   ` Leandro Dorileo
2014-02-19 21:39     ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2014-02-20 12:23       ` Leandro Dorileo
2014-05-08 14:34       ` Andreas Färber
2014-05-19 13:03         ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2014-05-19 17:09           ` Andreas Färber
2014-03-05 10:05   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-05-07 19:56     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-05-08 14:44       ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2014-05-08 14:49         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-19  9:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 2/2] sun4m: Add Sun CG3 framebuffer initialisation function Mark Cave-Ayland
2014-02-19 13:01 ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2014-02-19 21:35   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 0/2] sun4m: Implement Sun CG3 framebuffer for QEMU Mark Cave-Ayland
2014-02-23 17:42     ` Mark Cave-Ayland

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