Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] pci: Automatically patch PCI device id in PCI ROM

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 10/18/10 15:30, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> > > When following this argumentation the vendor id sanity check shouldn't
> > > be there in the first place ;)
> >
> > The sanity check is simply there because I had no test case
> > which patches the vendor id. How could I test with vga bios?
>
> No trivial way as the vgabios needs to be patched to handle that.

patchrom branches available now:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~kraxel/vgabios/log/
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/qemu/log/?h=patchrom

very short instructions:

(1) fetch+compile vgabios, copy new vgabios-pci binary
    so qemu can find it.
(2) fetch qemu, apply/merge id patching, compile qemu
(3) both standard and vmware vga should happily work
    with the same vgabios binary now, including vesa
    graphic modes.

cheers,
  Gerd