From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41588) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8bkb-0000OH-Pn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:33:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8bka-0002Cr-LX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:33:17 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-x22b.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::22b]:38594) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8bka-0002Ce-Es for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:33:16 -0500 Received: by mail-wi0-f171.google.com with SMTP id bs8so6237793wib.4 for ; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:33:15 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <54AC45AE.5020804@redhat.com> 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> <54AC45AE.5020804@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 16:33:15 -0500 Message-ID: From: G 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Maydell , qemu-devel qemu-devel I start the guest like this: qemu-system-ppc -hdd ~/machd.img -boot c -prom-env boot-args=-v Hope this is what you wanted: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (prog-if 01) Subsystem: Qumranet, Inc. Device 1100 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- wrote: > > > 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 >