Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Open GFW Howto

[tgingold@xxxxxxx]

Quoting Kouya Shimura <kouya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Wing,
>
> Thank you for your contribution.
>
> I'd like to switch to open GFW too.
> But there is an obstruction.
>
> Open GFW seems not to support legacy VGA bios.
> So Windows can't utilize cirrus logic video card
> and the display of qemu console is very poor
> (640x480 16colors) and slow.

Quiet interesting.  I was not aware of this.
Does windows use legacy bios to setup the video card ?  Once setup, how does it
know the mapping ?

There is a Cirrus driver within the EFI.  Maybe it could be helpful.

Tristan.

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