From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h0U0G-0003MX-EO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2019 11:30:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h0Tmz-0000cN-Nu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2019 11:16:34 -0500 Received: from mail-wr1-x441.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::441]:43372) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h0Tmz-0000bp-ED for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2019 11:16:33 -0500 Received: by mail-wr1-x441.google.com with SMTP id d17so2858295wre.10 for ; Sun, 03 Mar 2019 08:16:33 -0800 (PST) Sender: =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu=2DDaud=C3=A9?= References: <20190303000025.3496D7456A0@zero.eik.bme.hu> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= Message-ID: Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 17:16:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] hw/display: Add basic ATI VGA emulation List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Aleksandar Markovic , BALATON Zoltan Cc: Mark Cave-Ayland , "philmd@redhat.com" , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Gerd Hoffmann On 3/3/19 4:40 PM, Aleksandar Markovic wrote: > On Sunday, March 3, 2019, BALATON Zoltan wrote: > >> At least two machines, the PPC mac99 and MIPS fulong2e, have an ATI >> gfx chip by default (Rage 128 Pro and M6/RV100 respectively) and >> guests running on these and the PMON2000 firmware of the fulong2e >> expect this to be available. Fortunately these are very similar chips >> so they can be mostly emulated in the same device model. This patch >> adds basic emulation of these ATI VGA chips. > > > I am not familiar enough with display/graphics code in QEMU to give this > patch an official "reviewed-by", but from the standpoint of MIPS (Fulong 2E > is a MIPS-based board), this patch is a desirable one, and we want it, if > possible, even before March 12th (the planned soft freeze date). Though, I > am not rushing anyone in any way. So, FWIW: > > Acked-by: Aleksandar Markovic Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Using $ qemu-system-mips64el -M fulong2e -bios pmon_2e.bin -device ati-vga Regards, Phil. >> While this is incomplete and currently only enough to run the MIPS >> firmware and get framebuffer output with Linux, it allows the fulong2e >> board to work more like the real hardware and having it in QEMU in >> this state provides a way to experiment with it and allows others to >> contribute to improve it. It is compiled for all archs but only the >> fulong2e (which currently has no display output at all) is set to use >> it by default (in a patch sent separately). >> >> Signed-off-by: BALATON Zoltan