On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:44:57 -0400 Kevin O'Connor kevin@koconnor.net wrote:
Here's an example of my test configuration:
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There is a lot of possible variations for such setup:
Coreboot:
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SeaBIOS:
- Hardware specific VGA helpers(VGAHOOKS) enabled or disabled.
- Then there is the choice of building no option rom(CONFIG_NO_VGABIOS), or building the "coreboot linear framebuffer" one (CONFIG_VGA_COREBOOT).
I think you may be confusing SeaBIOS with SeaVGABIOS. Although SeaVGABIOS is in the SeaBIOS git repo, it builds a totally separate ROM. The choices under the "VGA ROM" menu only impact the creation of SeaVGABIOS (which results in out/vgabios.rom). The options in that menu have no impact on the main SeaBIOS rom (out/bios.bin.elf).
I was aware of it, but the way I phrased it is misleading indeed, sorry for the confusion.
By default, QEMU now uses SeaVGABIOS ROMS. So, I don't see why you'd want to recompile them. But, if you do, then select CONFIG_QEMU, select CONFIG_VGA_CIRRUS (or CONFIG_VGA_BOCHS), then run make, and then copy the vgarom to your qemu area (cp out/vgabios.bin /path/to/somewhere/). You can then change SeaBIOS back to build for coreboot (select CONFIG_COREBOOT) and build the SeaBIOS rom for coreboot.
Yes, the idea was to make it easy for everybody, and not to have to change configuration for building the option rom: some options in .config might have been lost because of that (since Kconfig do select some options based on what the current configuration is).
I think you can by adding "-device cirrus-vga,romfile=" to the QEMU command line. It may need additional tweaks though.
Thanks a lot for the tip, I'll try when I find the time.
Denis.