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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH] vga: add mmio bar to standard vga
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Gerd Hoffmann |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH] vga: add mmio bar to standard vga |
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Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:49:30 +0200 |
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On 09/18/12 12:32, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 11:51 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> This patch adds a mmio bar to the qemu standard vga which allows to
>> access the standard vga registers and bochs dispi interface registers
>> via mmio.
>
> I had a patch like that somewhere (or is that it ? :-)
>
> I dropped it in favor of a more interesting approach doing a virtio-vga,
> which Anthony and I have been hacking on a bit, but due to time
> constraints haven't really finished at this point.
Yea, has been quiet on this front for a while, thats why I looked into this.
> In any case, I'm fine with this patch but does it help anybody ?
Well, it gives you time to finish virtio-vga ;)
I have a linux kernel driver too, although not kms/drm but fbdev.
cheers,
Gerd