[coreboot] Broken VGA ROM init in QEMU

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 22:44:19 CEST 2008



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:stepan at coresystems.de]
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:31 PM
> To: Myles Watson
> Cc: Coreboot
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] Broken VGA ROM init in QEMU
> 
> Myles Watson wrote:
> > As of rev 657, the VGA ROM in QEMU doesn't get run.  Looking at the
> > code that was changed in device/pci_rom.c it looks like the problem is
> > that the VGA card is being treated like an onboard device, but the ROM
> > is not in the LAR.
> >
> Oops. The Qemu VGA adapter was hardcoded to be an onboard device. Also,
> reading PCI_ROM_ADDRESS does not seem to give a useful value for that
> device, so we need to leave the dev->rom_address entry intact.
> 
> See patch.

It works for me now.  Thanks for the quick fix.

Myles

Acked-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>






More information about the coreboot mailing list