VMWare VGA BIOS planned

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

Hello,

Is a VMWare VGA BIOS port from the original VGA BIOS project also planned?

Currently I don't see any output when using the VGA BIOS. Original VGA 
BIOS project version works well.

Thank you.

Ciao,
Gehard

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 11/02/12 07:32, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is a VMWare VGA BIOS port from the original VGA BIOS project also planned?

WorksForMe[tm].
> Currently I don't see any output when using the VGA BIOS. Original VGA
> BIOS project version works well.

What exactly you are doing?

To build the roms you'll best start with a qemu git repo as the
configurations needed to properly build the vgabios variants for qemu
are stored in the qemu repo.

Then initialize the seabios and vgabios git submodules.  Then go to
roms/.  "make seavgabios" will build vgabios binaries from seabios repo
and copy to pc-bios/.  "make lgplvgabios" will build vgabios binaries
from old lgpl'ed vgabios repo and copy to pc-bios/.  For completeness:
"make bios" will build (+copy) seabios itself.

cheers,
  Gerd

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

On 02.11.2012 10:17, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 11/02/12 07:32, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is a VMWare VGA BIOS port from the original VGA BIOS project also planned?
>
> WorksForMe[tm].
> > Currently I don't see any output when using the VGA BIOS. Original VGA
> > BIOS project version works well.
>
> What exactly you are doing?
>
> To build the roms you'll best start with a qemu git repo as the
> configurations needed to properly build the vgabios variants for qemu
> are stored in the qemu repo.
>
> Then initialize the seabios and vgabios git submodules.  Then go to
> roms/.  "make seavgabios" will build vgabios binaries from seabios repo
> and copy to pc-bios/.  "make lgplvgabios" will build vgabios binaries
> from old lgpl'ed vgabios repo and copy to pc-bios/.  For completeness:
> "make bios" will build (+copy) seabios itself.

How do I initalize the seabios and vgabios git submodules?
# Found it: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Submodules
git submodule init
git submodule update
# Failed due to DNS problems

BTW: Had a problem with the qemu domain:
nslookup -q=ns qemu.org

Non-authoritative answer:
qemu.org        nameserver = erythros.intersec.com.
qemu.org        nameserver = rouge.intersec.com.

Authoritative answers can be found from:
erythros.intersec.com   internet address = 88.191.88.140

nslookup rouge.intersec.com.
** server can't find rouge.intersec.com.: NXDOMAIN

But now to the one I'm trying to use:
git clone git://git.linuxtogo.org/home/kevin/seabios.git
cd seabios
make config
....
*
* VGA ROM
*
VGA Hardware Type
> None (NO_VGABIOS)

2. QEMU/Bochs Original IBM 256K VGA (VGA_STANDARD_VGA)
   3. QEMU/Bochs Cirrus SVGA (VGA_CIRRUS)
   4. QEMU/Bochs VBE SVGA (VGA_BOCHS)
   5. GeodeGX2 (VGA_GEODEGX2)
   6. GeodeLX (VGA_GEODELX)
choice[1-6]: 2
....

make clean
make
...
   Finalizing rom out/vgabios.bin

I'm trying to use out/vgabios.bin

The one from git://git.qemu.org/vgabios.git is working well.

Summary:
So we have three repositories, regarding VMWARE VGA BIOS:
1.) git://git.qemu.org/vgabios.git => OK
2.) git://git.linuxtogo.org/home/kevin/seabios.git => not included
3.) Submodules in qemu tree, which point to git://git.qemu.org/vgabios.git/
Which of the first 2 repositories are maintained in the future?

Thank you.

Ciao,
Gerhard

cat .gitmodules
[submodule "roms/vgabios"]
         path = roms/vgabios
         url = git://git.qemu.org/vgabios.git/
[submodule "roms/seabios"]
         path = roms/seabios
         url = git://git.qemu.org/seabios.git/
[submodule "roms/SLOF"]
         path = roms/SLOF
         url = git://git.qemu.org/SLOF.git
[submodule "roms/ipxe"]
         path = roms/ipxe
         url = git://git.qemu.org/ipxe.git
[submodule "roms/openbios"]
         path = roms/openbios
         url = git://git.qemu.org/openbios.git
[submodule "roms/qemu-palcode"]
         path = roms/qemu-palcode
         url = git://repo.or.cz/qemu-palcode.git
[submodule "roms/sgabios"]
         path = roms/sgabios
         url = git://git.qemu.org/sgabios.git
[submodule "pixman"]
         path = pixman
         url = git://anongit.freedesktop.org/pixman

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 02/11/2012 19:59, Gerhard Wiesinger ha scritto:
> On 02.11.2012 10:17, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > On 11/02/12 07:32, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Is a VMWare VGA BIOS port from the original VGA BIOS project also
> > > planned?
> >
> > WorksForMe[tm].
> > > Currently I don't see any output when using the VGA BIOS. Original VGA
> > > BIOS project version works well.
> >
> > What exactly you are doing?
> >
> > To build the roms you'll best start with a qemu git repo as the
> > configurations needed to properly build the vgabios variants for qemu
> > are stored in the qemu repo.
> >
> > Then initialize the seabios and vgabios git submodules.  Then go to
> > roms/.  "make seavgabios" will build vgabios binaries from seabios repo
> > and copy to pc-bios/.  "make lgplvgabios" will build vgabios binaries
> > from old lgpl'ed vgabios repo and copy to pc-bios/.  For completeness:
> > "make bios" will build (+copy) seabios itself.
>
> How do I initalize the seabios and vgabios git submodules?
> # Found it: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Submodules
> git submodule init
> git submodule update
> # Failed due to DNS problems
>
> BTW: Had a problem with the qemu domain:
> nslookup -q=ns qemu.org
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> qemu.org        nameserver = erythros.intersec.com.
> qemu.org        nameserver = rouge.intersec.com.
>
> Authoritative answers can be found from:
> erythros.intersec.com   internet address = 88.191.88.140
>
> nslookup rouge.intersec.com.
> ** server can't find rouge.intersec.com.: NXDOMAIN
>
> But now to the one I'm trying to use:
> git clone git://git.linuxtogo.org/home/kevin/seabios.git
> cd seabios
> make config
> ....
> VGA ROM
>
> VGA Hardware Type
> > None (NO_VGABIOS)
> QEMU/Bochs Original IBM 256K VGA (VGA_STANDARD_VGA)
> QEMU/Bochs Cirrus SVGA (VGA_CIRRUS)
> QEMU/Bochs VBE SVGA (VGA_BOCHS)
> GeodeGX2 (VGA_GEODEGX2)
> GeodeLX (VGA_GEODELX)
>
> choice[1-6]: 2
> ....
>
> make clean
> make
> ...
>   Finalizing rom out/vgabios.bin
>
> I'm trying to use out/vgabios.bin
>
> The one from git://git.qemu.org/vgabios.git is working well.

Try replacing qemu.org with qemu-project.org (in the .gitmodules file),
or add the nslookup result to your /etc/hosts file.  Currently it is
140.211.15.109.

Paolo
> Summary:
> So we have three repositories, regarding VMWARE VGA BIOS:
> 1.) git://git.qemu.org/vgabios.git => OK
> 2.) git://git.linuxtogo.org/home/kevin/seabios.git => not included
> 3.) Submodules in qemu tree, which point to git://git.qemu.org/vgabios.git/
> Which of the first 2 repositories are maintained in the future?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Ciao,
> Gerhard
>
> cat .gitmodules
> [submodule "roms/vgabios"]
>         path = roms/vgabios
>         url = git://git.qemu.org/vgabios.git/
> [submodule "roms/seabios"]
>         path = roms/seabios
>         url = git://git.qemu.org/seabios.git/
> [submodule "roms/SLOF"]
>         path = roms/SLOF
>         url = git://git.qemu.org/SLOF.git
> [submodule "roms/ipxe"]
>         path = roms/ipxe
>         url = git://git.qemu.org/ipxe.git
> [submodule "roms/openbios"]
>         path = roms/openbios
>         url = git://git.qemu.org/openbios.git
> [submodule "roms/qemu-palcode"]
>         path = roms/qemu-palcode
>         url = git://repo.or.cz/qemu-palcode.git
> [submodule "roms/sgabios"]
>         path = roms/sgabios
>         url = git://git.qemu.org/sgabios.git
> [submodule "pixman"]
>         path = pixman
>         url = git://anongit.freedesktop.org/pixman