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 <berrange@redhat.com>
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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