Re: [SeaBIOS] vgabios: more x86emu issues

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 07/30/13 12:45, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We already have tools/vgafixup.py to workaround some x86emu issues.
> Looks like some more is needed, reportly[1] there are more xorg
> segfaults which look alot like x86emu isses.  They trigger with stdvga
> and qxl (which are handled using the vesa driver), and they only happen
> on x86_64 where vm86 mode can not be used to run the vgabios.
>
> Guest in question is RHEL-5 / centos-5.  Xorg version is 1.1.1
>
> Some people digged deep into the x86emu changelogs when this showed up
> for the first time.  Anyone remembers the details?  Are there known
> x86emu bugs where we don't have workarounds for?
>
> cheers,
>   Gerd
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=987097

Searching my inbox fingered
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.coreboot.seabios/5831.

Laszlo