Re: [RFC 00/10] R300 QEMU device V2

[Aaron Zakhrov]

I tested my code with the vgabios-ati.bin rom file and it seems to get passed the earlier issue I had.

I have cleaned up my code and have sent a new patch series. The new one is pretty big but it contains only the necessary header files and it should be a little easier to review

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 10:02 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 05:12:10PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> > It does become a slight usability issue, as any users need to go and find
> > the suitable BIOS in order to use the device. No downstream OS vendors are
> > going to be able to distribute this BIOS either
> >
> > I don't know if we have hit this problem before & if we have any
> > general policies about it ?
>
> Booting from lsi scsi adapter used to work with a vendor bios only
> loooooong ago.  Fixed by adding an lsi driver to seabios.
>
> Building a r300 vgabios shouldn't be too hard, we already have
> support in seavgabios for the other ati variants emulated by qemu.

That sounds reasonable, so it is fine to add r300 to QEMU without the BIOS.

Regards,
Daniel
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