From: "Jun Koi" <junkoi2004@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vgabios vs. vgabios-cirrus?
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 10:47:40 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fdaac4d50805111847q25b272c4ic9dec0f6ab4f8887@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY110-DAV2E21FFA28957B0C087871B9D30@phx.gbl>
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:49 PM, C. W. Betts <computers57@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I think the reason why we have two VGA BIOSes is because one is for the
> original, non-cirrus VGA card, while the other one is for the Cirrus card.
> The latter is used by default on I386.
But this still doesnt answer my question: what is the difference
between these two BIOS, and why I should use one but not the other.
Many thanks,
Jun
> On May 8, 2008, at 8:52 PM, Jun Koi wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Currently we have 2 vgabios: vgabios.bin and vgabios-cirrus.bin. Is
>> there any difference between them? Does one offer more features than
>> the other, or what?
>>
>> I imagine that we have 2 vgabios because some OS prefers one to the
>> other, but cannot confirm that.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Jun
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-12 1:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-09 2:52 [Qemu-devel] vgabios vs. vgabios-cirrus? Jun Koi
[not found] ` <A405BBDB-BAD3-4556-8BAF-1CD8F86C8A14@hotmail.com>
2008-05-09 4:49 ` C.W. Betts
2008-05-12 1:47 ` Jun Koi [this message]
2008-05-12 6:33 ` Volker Ruppert
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