Re: [Qemu-devel] Roadmap for adding non-x86 system mode emulation support?

[Fabrice Bellard]

Can you send me more info about your X11 server (number of bits per 
pixel, endianness) ? The output of xdpyinfo would suffice.

Thank you,

Fabrice.

Leigh Dyer wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 12:26, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
>
> > Chad Page wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Chad Page wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >         I'd still like to get a feel for what's needed to make that work -
> > > > > I'm itching to get it working on my iBook, and would like to help. 
> > With the latest commits I was able to launch an x86 Linux kernel on a 
> > PowerPC Linux box :-)
> >
> > I am interested to know if the VGA emulation works too as I don't have 
> > X11 access to a PowerPC system. Using the image 'linux.img' available on 
> > the web site would be a good test.
>
>
> I just compiled current CVS on my Debian Unstable PowerPC machine
> (changing "regs" to "gregs" in cpu-exec.c). VGA text modes are very
> badly corrupted - no actual text ever appears, only character-sized
> blocks of colour. In some cases (such as the lilo menu screen) it seems
> to get the background colours right at least, but the POST screen has
> blocks of colour in various places that don't seem to represent anything
> at all.
>
> Graphical VGA modes seem to be a bit more successful. The linux.img
> image didn't want to boot, but my Debian Woody image, with a 2.4.18
> kernel using vga16fb, did - the palette looks a bit wrong (the text is
> all yellow, for instance), but apart from that it looks fine.
>
> If you'd like screenshots of any of this, please let me know and I'll
> see what I can do.
>
> Thanks
> Leigh
>
>
> > Fabrice.
> >
> >
> >
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