Fabrice,
Will you accept such a check?
kind regards,
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 01:53:20PM +0200, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>Hi,
>
>What do you think about checking if a VGA bios was found (and if so, if
>it has a valid size)?
>
>Reasoning is that on pristine machines (i.e. without a VGA bios ROM
>available) starting qemu fails without giving any helpful error message.
>
>I'm attaching a simple patch which adds such a check.
>
>Comments?
>
>Thank you,
>Bernhard
>diff -X excl -rduNp qemu.oorig/hw/pc.c qemu/hw/pc.c
>--- qemu.oorig/hw/pc.c 2005-07-28 17:54:38.000000000 +0200
>+++ qemu/hw/pc.c 2005-07-31 13:38:23.000000000 +0200
>@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ static void pc_init1(int ram_size, int v
> char buf[1024];
> int ret, linux_boot, initrd_size, i, nb_nics1;
> unsigned long bios_offset, vga_bios_offset;
>- int bios_size, isa_bios_size;
>+ int bios_size, isa_bios_size, vga_bios_size;
> PCIBus *pci_bus;
>
> linux_boot = (kernel_filename != NULL);
>@@ -446,8 +446,12 @@ static void pc_init1(int ram_size, int v
> } else {
> snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s/%s", bios_dir, VGABIOS_FILENAME);
> }
>+ vga_bios_size = get_image_size(buf);
>+ if (vga_bios_size != 32768)
>+ goto bios_error;
>+
> ret = load_image(buf, phys_ram_base + vga_bios_offset);
>-
>+
> /* setup basic memory access */
> cpu_register_physical_memory(0xc0000, 0x10000,
> vga_bios_offset | IO_MEM_ROM);
>
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