[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and VMWare

[Joe Pub]

Hi There,

Has anyone had any success with VMWare.  I have partially implemented the
PC87360 SIO chip which has give me serial and I can boot LinuxBIOS up to the
elf payload stage.  I'm trying to get the VMWare VGA to work at no avail.
Has anyone else has success with this.

I have added

default CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA=1
default CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN=1

to the Optionslb file and adjusted the size of the ROM image by -32KB
(sizeof VGA BIOS for VMWare)
and also added

device pci f.0 on                         # VGA controller
            chip drivers/pci/onboard
                device pci f.0 on end
                register "rom_address" = "0xfff80000"
            end
        end

to the Config.lb.

When I start VMWare with this image though it does nothing but sit there
with no VGA.  I have even enabled serial logging back on using
CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250 but still continue to use CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN but
nothing then even gets written to the serial port.

When does the VGA BIOS rom get called, at what stage?

Regards,
Joe

[Lu, Yinghai]

Boot log and your MB Config.lb?

YH

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Subject: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and VMWare

Hi There,

Has anyone had any success with VMWare.  I have partially implemented
the PC87360 SIO chip which has give me serial and I can boot LinuxBIOS
up to the elf payload stage.  I'm trying to get the VMWare VGA to work
at no avail.  Has anyone else has success with this.

I have added

default CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA=1
default CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN=1

to the Optionslb file and adjusted the size of the ROM image by -32KB
(sizeof VGA BIOS for VMWare) 
and also added

device pci f.0 on                         # VGA controller
            chip drivers/pci/onboard
                device pci f.0 on end
                register "rom_address" = "0xfff80000" 
            end
        end

to the Config.lb.

When I start VMWare with this image though it does nothing but sit there
with no VGA.  I have even enabled serial logging back on using
CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250 but still continue to use CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN
but nothing then even gets written to the serial port.

When does the VGA BIOS rom get called, at what stage?

Regards,
Joe