Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] PPC: VGA broken in git master

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 05/03/12 15:48, Avi Kivity wrote:

> > > Can you provide the command line needed to reproduce the problem?
> >
> > Sure. I can reproduce it here using something as simple as:
> >
> > ./qemu-system-ppc -cdrom /dev/null -boot d -vnc :1
> >
> > What you'll see is that the framebuffer remains black in your VNC
> > client, as opposed to displaying the OpenBIOS startup banner.
> >
> > Note that de58ac72b6a062d1a61478284c0c0f8a0428613e (and the previous
> > commit) have a qdev bug which segfaults qemu-system-ppc on startup,
> > however the attached patch will resolve this for you.
> >
> > I've also confirmed over the weekend that the bug also affects
> > SPARC64, although testing shows that SPARC32 still seems to work okay.
>
>
> Turned out that -vga std was broken cross-target.  Please check
>
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git memory/urgent
>
> for a fix.

Hi Avi,

I've just tested your patchset against git master and it looks good here 
- VGA for both PPC and SPARC64 now works again.


Many thanks,

Mark.