I have taken the driver out for the onboard device at no avail - does that mean the VGA bios doesn't need to be in the image also if it's an add-on card?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 28/02/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Is the VGA device treated as add on card
or onboard device in your HW model?</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">In first case, the VGA BIOS is supposed to
be loaded by HW model. Such as qemu-i386, or xen start …</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> Joe Pub
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Lu, Yinghai<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS
and VMWare</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi Lu,<br>
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I have changed the config as suggested, didn't realise that the PCI id's had to
be in numerical order. Different result with VMWare now, it reports a
triple fault within the VMWare log, but that it as much as I can get from it,
still no serial output when VGA is on <br>
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Regards,<br>
Joe</span></font></p>
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<p><span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On 28/02/07, <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lu,
Yinghai</span></b> <<a href="mailto:yinghai.lu@amd.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">yinghai.lu@amd.com</a>>
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<p><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: blue;">chip northbridge/intel/i440bx</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: blue;"> device pci_domain 0 on <br>
device pci 0.0 on end # host bridge<br>
device pci 1.0 on end # PCI bridge<br>
device pci 10.0 on end # SCSI storage
controller<br>
device pci 11.0 on end # Ethernet
controller <br>
device pci 12.0 on end # Audio
controller<br>
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device pci f.0 on # VGA
controller<br>
chip drivers/pci/onboard<br>
device pci f.0 on end<br>
register "rom_address" =
"0xfff80000" <br>
end<br>
end<br>
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device pci 7.0 on # ISA
bridge <br>
end<br>
end</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="blue" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: blue;"> device pci_domain 0 on <br>
device pci 0.0 on end # host bridge<br>
device pci 1.0 on end # PCI bridge</span></font></p>
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device pci 7.0 on #
ISA bridge <br>
end</span></font></p>
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chip drivers/pci/onboard<br>
device pci f.0 on end<br>
register "rom_address" =
"0xfff80000" <br>
end</span></font></p>
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device pci 10.0 on end # SCSI storage
controller<br>
device pci 11.0 on end # Ethernet
controller <br>
device pci 12.0 on end # Audio
controller</span></font></p>
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