Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] Support more than one vga card

2011-05-05 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 12:44:04PM +, Mark Marshall wrote: > > Not having access to the very beginning of the boot really limited > > sgabios' capabilities, so the "vgaroms/" trick was added to SeaBIOS. > > (In particular, one couldn't change the boot order on a real machine.) > > It's ~3 lines

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2] Make pci memory window configurable.

2011-05-05 Thread Isaku Yamahata
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:10:10AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> Looks like each bus uses 1meg alignment for all devices on that bus. > > That looks like a random pick to me. Isaku? I think so. At least chipset in qemu/qemu-kvm (PIIX4, q35) doesn't have such restriction. > Looking at all devic

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2] Make pci memory window configurable.

2011-05-05 Thread Isaku Yamahata
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:06:27AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 05/04/11 04:26, Isaku Yamahata wrote: >> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 08:47:04PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: Is there a way to figure the usable address space at runtime instead of depending on BUILD_PCIMEM_START? Can I just

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] Support more than one vga card

2011-05-05 Thread Mark Marshall
> On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 11:51:02AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > I'm a bit confused. With sgabios, how is it normally loaded on bare > > metal? I thought it's often just flashed in a dummy PCI device, > > make part of the BIOS image with a bios editor, or even loaded as > > part of a NICs f