[SeaBIOS] VMWare VGA BIOS planned

[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
>> 1. 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.

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