[Qemu-devel] Cirrusfb and Qemu 0.7.2

[Jean-Marie Verdun]

Hi,

 

I am trying to make run the cirrusfb driver which supposely support the  GD5446 graphic adapter. Unfortunatly when the frame buffer start up the screen is infinitly black. I try to upgrade the vgabios to 0.5c build the 7th of July 2005 and the Bochs BIOS to Revision 1.130 dated of 2005/02/13 but same thing. I am currently using Qemu 0.7.2 release.

 

I would like to make work this as I am working on a bootsplash patch which require at least 16 bits colors support at really early stage of the kernel bootup sequence. QEMU has always been my "debugger" for kernel stuff and I am a little bit stuck there. So before trying to fix this issue by myself I would like to know if some people had been successfull to make work such frame buffer driver for the console and get your feedbacks.

 

Have a nice day

 

Jean-Marie