[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] mark VBE mapping as reserved in e820

Izik Eidus ieidus at redhat.com
Mon Jan 25 12:03:55 CET 2010


On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:26:24 +0100
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 01/24/10 01:18, Izik Eidus wrote:
> > For example spice start the system with the isa device and then only when
> > there is a driver it move into the QXL device.
> 
> Hmm, /me thinks this is a very bad idea.  IMHO the std vga memory should 
> be a normal PCI bar of the QXL device.  Then you don't have this sort of 
> problems in the first place ...

Hi, It would be nice to use pci memory even for the "vga mode" of spice,
But right now itwill require us to use 2 pci devices -
one for the std-vga and one for the qxl, or there is a way to do
this without using the secoend pci device?

> 
> cheers,
>    Gerd
> 




More information about the SeaBIOS mailing list