[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 2/2] vgahw: fallback to stdvga when cirrus / bochs detection fails

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Thu Sep 5 02:15:06 CEST 2013


On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 12:00:23PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Happens in case a vga with bochs interface lives behind a pci bridge.
> stdvga ports are passed through with vgasnoop enabled, bochs interface
> ports are not.  Better fallback to stdvga (so text mode works as usual)
> rather than bailing out.

If bochsvga needs to fallback to stdvga, then I think that should be
done in bochsvga.c, not in the vgahw layer.

-Kevin



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