[coreboot] SeaVGABIOS with native vga init (Need testers)

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Mon Feb 17 16:28:22 CET 2014


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:31:29AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > I've run some basic tests on this version of SeaVGABIOS on my
> > hardware.  However, I don't have one of the boards where coreboot
> > supports native vga init.  It would be great if someone with the
> > hardware (looks like stout, x60, and maybe others) could run tests.
> 
> qemu has native vga init support too.

You mean with vga pass-through?  Is there value in supporting a
vgabios for qemu in this situation?

-Kevin

> 
> You probably want boot your VM without vgabios in the pci rom bar
> though, otherwise seabios will load and run it:
> 
> qemu -device VGA,romfile=
> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 
> 



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