From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Elwxq-0006x4-Ln for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:20:14 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Elwxm-0006vf-M4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:20:13 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Elwxm-0006vG-2K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:20:10 -0500 Received: from [66.249.82.199] (helo=xproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ElwzZ-0007s8-GO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:22:01 -0500 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s6so1128475wxc for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:19:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:19:36 +0100 From: andrzej zaborowski In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu curses driver Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Blue Swirl Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hiya, On 12/12/05, Blue Swirl wrote: > Sparc32 graphics cards are just frame buffers without a text mode. Sparc6= 4 > uses PCI cards, including VGA, so any text mode enhancements could be use= ful > there. I just noticed that there's a Sparc64 architecture, and it is there quite separate from Sparc32. I only didn't see it before because it doesn't appear in the output of "./configure --help" together with other targets. Indeed the "qemu-system-sparc64" executable, unlinke qemu-system-sparc, is linked with "vga.o", the normal PCI card VGA emulator. Fortunately I disabled compiling with Curses only for "sparc" and "arm", so when I reran ./configure with "sparc64" in the targets list it compiled just fine with curses support built into qemu-system-sparc64. I only have no way to see whether everything works because I didn't even find a working BIOS image for Sparc 64, but it should be fine. Do the video adapters used in Sparc 32 machines really have nothing like a text mode? Cheers, -- balrog 2oo5 Dear Outlook users: Please remove me from your address books http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=3D03/08/21/143258