On 3/3/19 4:40 PM, Aleksandar Markovic wrote: > On Sunday, March 3, 2019, BALATON Zoltan <bala...@eik.bme.hu> wrote: > >> At least two machines, the PPC mac99 and MIPS fulong2e, have an ATI >> gfx chip by default (Rage 128 Pro and M6/RV100 respectively) and >> guests running on these and the PMON2000 firmware of the fulong2e >> expect this to be available. Fortunately these are very similar chips >> so they can be mostly emulated in the same device model. This patch >> adds basic emulation of these ATI VGA chips. > > > I am not familiar enough with display/graphics code in QEMU to give this > patch an official "reviewed-by", but from the standpoint of MIPS (Fulong 2E > is a MIPS-based board), this patch is a desirable one, and we want it, if > possible, even before March 12th (the planned soft freeze date). Though, I > am not rushing anyone in any way. So, FWIW: > > Acked-by: Aleksandar Markovic <amarko...@wavecomp.com>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> Using $ qemu-system-mips64el -M fulong2e -bios pmon_2e.bin -device ati-vga Regards, Phil. >> While this is incomplete and currently only enough to run the MIPS >> firmware and get framebuffer output with Linux, it allows the fulong2e >> board to work more like the real hardware and having it in QEMU in >> this state provides a way to experiment with it and allows others to >> contribute to improve it. It is compiled for all archs but only the >> fulong2e (which currently has no display output at all) is set to use >> it by default (in a patch sent separately). >> >> Signed-off-by: BALATON Zoltan <bala...@eik.bme.hu>
