Re: [Qemu-devel] mipsel support for graphic mode

[Thiemo Seufer]

Yuval Mintz wrote:
> Yuval Mintz wrote:
> >Hello,
> >Can anyone tell me if there exist support for a graphical (e.g., when no 
> >?nographic is used) when using qemu to emulate a mips little-endian 
> >machine (malta)?
> >I'm trying using both windows XP and linux as host machines, but I 
> >couldn't even use the most basic X usages.
> >If it is not currently supported, what in what state of development does 
> >it stand? What is lacking to allow usage of a graphic mode?
> 
> >I guess your Malta kernel lacks framebuffer support.
> >http://people.debian.org/~ths/qemu/malta/ works for me.
> 
> >Thiemo
> 
> Let me give some more information: my kernel was constructed to support 
> framebuffers. I wrote a small program that opens the framebuffer, memcpy it 
> and tries to write to it. I manage to pass the opening part, but I recieve 
> the message that no device is found and so it is not a legal command. The 
> use of the described above vmlinux doesn't change that error messge.

Then your program does something differently than the standard fb tools
which come with Debian.


Thiemo