On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Laszlo Ersek <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
> In the thread starter
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.tianocore.devel/2382> you said:
>
> > I copy OVMF.fd to bios.bin, but no OvmfVideo.rom file is created or
> > available as suggested by the online sourceforge docs
> > (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore
> > /index.php?title=How_to_run_OVMF) or the edk2\OvmfPkg\README.txt
> > file, so I'm using the same CirrusLogic5446.rom that works with the
> > non-networking OVMF.
>
...
> The builds linked on that page are from svn r11337
> ("OVMF-X64-r11337-alpha.zip"), when CirrusLogic5430Dxe was still
> current, and compiled into CirrusLogic5446.rom.
>
> I downloaded the ZIP file. Its README says
>
> * Either copy, rename or symlink
> CirrusLogic5446.rom => vgabios-cirrus.bin
>
> OVMF downloads CirrusLogic5430Dxe from the emulated card because you ask qemu
> to load it as an option rom. If you restore vgabios-cirrus.bin to the
> (non-UEFI) SeaBIOS binary, then QemuVideoDxe should start working.
> Laszlo
>
In the current directory where I've been running qemu there is a
symlink vgabios-cirrus.bin -> CirrusLogic5446.rom
I've now deleted that symlink and yes, qemu 1.2.0 has begun working with
default (and -vga cirrus) parameters. (is that the SeaBIOS in the
/usr/share/qemu directory?)
So EDK2 changes since that original setup (October 2012 I believe, where I
was told to "mv CirrusLogic5446.rom vgabios-cirrus.bin") have rendered the
need for that rom obsolete, but also maybe are not backward compatable with
that rom? The OVMF.fd in that .zip does work with that rom, the OVMF.fd's
that I build don't. Anyway, I'm glad that old rom is no longer needed.
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