From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57550) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8al4-0000eq-Sw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:29:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8al0-0006Yb-R9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:29:42 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-x229.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::229]:47769) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8al0-0006YL-Kp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:29:38 -0500 Received: by mail-wi0-f169.google.com with SMTP id r20so6795873wiv.4 for ; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 12:29:37 -0800 (PST) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <54AC45AE.5020804@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:29:34 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3154DC97-3B67-4DBF-BD02-C64E4A9591E3@gmail.com> <77FFD738-1433-4B15-8522-C1EA965B774B@gmail.com> <122C8E58-48F5-4A54-B0AF-A826492D73B6@gmail.com> <4A37A1CE-EE81-4408-A13E-8A4C7C91D498@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A37A1CE-EE81-4408-A13E-8A4C7C91D498@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Gives user ability to select endian format for video display - fixes Mac OS X guest color issue. List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Programmingkid , Peter Maydell Cc: qemu-devel qemu-devel On 06/01/2015 19:07, Programmingkid wrote: > http://www.mcamafia.de/pdf/ibm_vgaxga_trm2.pdf This file is the > specifications to the VGA standard. It makes no mention of pixel > endian format. There is no mention of bit order in the > specifications. It's probably assumed to be little endian. The VGA didn't even have modes with more than 256 colors, so there's no endianness at all. How are you starting the guest? Can you paste the output of "lspci -vv" in a Linux guest that (apart from the disk contents) has the same hardware as your Mac OS X guest? Paolo