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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Aaron Dominick" <aaron.zakhrov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/10] R300 QEMU device V2
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 17:12:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191127161210.ractqwwymzkpbu6n@sirius.home.kraxel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191127150520.GG2131806@redhat.com>

  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.

cheers,
  Gerd



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-27 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-26 12:44 [RFC 00/10] R300 QEMU device V2 aaron.zakhrov
2019-11-26 12:44 ` [RFC 05/10] Add Radeon kernel headers. Will clean up later aaron.zakhrov
2019-11-26 12:44 ` [RFC 06/10] Fix MC STATUS resgister aaron.zakhrov
2019-11-26 12:44 ` [RFC 07/10] R300 fixes aaron.zakhrov
2019-11-26 12:44 ` [RFC 08/10] Got GPU init working. Stops at probing display aaron.zakhrov
2019-11-26 12:44 ` [RFC 09/10] Clean up Radeon Header files aaron.zakhrov
2019-11-27  9:55   ` Aleksandar Markovic
2019-11-27 14:42     ` BALATON Zoltan
2019-11-26 14:19 ` [RFC 00/10] R300 QEMU device V2 Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-11-27 15:00   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-11-27 15:05     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-11-27 15:13       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-11-27 15:54         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-11-27 16:12       ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2019-11-27 16:32         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-11-28  6:51           ` Aaron Zakhrov
2019-11-29 18:03             ` BALATON Zoltan
2019-11-27 16:17       ` BALATON Zoltan

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