Re: [SeaBIOS] RFC: Primary VGA

2013-02-28 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:26:54 -0700 Alex Williamson wrote: > Looking at how this would happen on bare metal, In coreboot(which can use SeaBIOS as a payload) it currently works like that (in src/device/device.c ): /* If we prefer plugin VGA over chipset VGA, the chipset might want to know. */ if (

Re: [SeaBIOS] RFC: Primary VGA

2013-02-28 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 08:50 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 02:16:23PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > > > > When we start adding root ports and bridges to systems we need some > > concept of a primary VGA device.The differentiation of the primary > > device is that it's

Re: [SeaBIOS] RFC: Primary VGA

2013-02-27 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 02:16:23PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > > When we start adding root ports and bridges to systems we need some > concept of a primary VGA device.The differentiation of the primary > device is that it's the default one that responds to the Legacy VGA > address ranges. PCs

Re: [SeaBIOS] RFC: Primary VGA

2013-02-27 Thread Alex Williamson
On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 20:11 -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 02:16:23PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > > > > When we start adding root ports and bridges to systems we need some > > concept of a primary VGA device.The differentiation of the primary > > device is that it's the

Re: [SeaBIOS] RFC: Primary VGA

2013-02-27 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 02:16:23PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > > When we start adding root ports and bridges to systems we need some > concept of a primary VGA device.The differentiation of the primary > device is that it's the default one that responds to the Legacy VGA > address ranges. PCs

[SeaBIOS] RFC: Primary VGA

2013-02-27 Thread Alex Williamson
When we start adding root ports and bridges to systems we need some concept of a primary VGA device.The differentiation of the primary device is that it's the default one that responds to the Legacy VGA address ranges. PCs often have a BIOS selection for this. Seabios already seems to have som