Hi; I'm moving this bug to 'incomplete', because I was never able to repro it -- gtk and sdl displays both worked for me.
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1778182 Title: qemu-system-aarch64 shows black framebuffer window on minimal bare metal example on SDL but not on VNC Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: QEMU v2.12.0, Ubuntu 18.04 host. Build QEMU and the bare metal image exactly as described at: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/revisions/85135/4 with: Then cd into example 09_framebuffer. Now if I do: ../../qemu/aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -M raspi3 -kernel kernel8.img -serial stdio the SDL window shows up black. However, if I use VNC: ../../qemu/aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -M raspi3 -kernel kernel8.img -serial stdio -vnc :1 vinagre :5901 an image of Homer Simpson appears as expected. Therefore, I think this must be a QEMU / SDL bug instead of the repository, since we get different behaviors with `-vnc` and with SDL. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1778182/+subscriptions