Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and VMWare

[Joe Pub]

I have taken the driver out for the onboard device at no avail - does that
mean the VGA bios doesn't need to be in the image also if it's an add-on
card?

On 28/02/07, Lu, Yinghai  wrote:
> Is the VGA device treated as add on card or onboard device in your HW
> model?
>
> In first case, the VGA BIOS is supposed to be loaded by HW model. Such as
> qemu-i386, or xen start …
>
> YH
>
> *From:* Joe Pub [mailto:[e-mail]]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 28, 2007 10:52 AM
> *To:* Lu, Yinghai
> *Cc:* [e-mail]
> *Subject:* Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and VMWare
>
> Hi Lu,
>
> I have changed the config as suggested, didn't realise that the PCI id's
> had to be in numerical order.  Different result with VMWare now, it reports
> a triple fault within the VMWare log, but that it as much as I can get from
> it, still no serial output when VGA is on
>
> Regards,
> Joe
>
> On 28/02/07, *Lu, Yinghai*  wrote:
>
> chip northbridge/intel/i440bx
>
> device pci_domain 0 on
>   device pci 0.0 on end     # host bridge
>   device pci 1.0 on end     # PCI bridge
>   device pci 10.0 on end     # SCSI storage controller
>   device pci 11.0 on end     # Ethernet controller
>   device pci 12.0 on end     # Audio controller
>
> device pci f.0 on       # VGA controller
>    chip drivers/pci/onboard
>     device pci f.0 on end
>     register "rom_address" = "0xfff80000"
>    end
>   end
>
> device pci 7.0 on      # ISA bridge
>   end
>  end
>
> = è
>
> chip northbridge/intel/i440bx
>
> device pci_domain 0 on
>   device pci 0.0 on end     # host bridge
>   device pci 1.0 on end     # PCI bridge
> device pci 7.0 on      # ISA bridge
>
> end
>
> chip drivers/pci/onboard
>     device pci f.0 on end
>     register "rom_address" = "0xfff80000"
>    end
>
> device pci 10.0 on end     # SCSI storage controller
>   device pci 11.0 on end     # Ethernet controller
>   device pci 12.0 on end     # Audio controller
>  end