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



>
>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.

I notice there are two directories(CirrusLogic and VgaMiniPort)
in EdkQemuPkg. Which driver is firmware currently use? In intel's
firmware we just use the miniport driver with some patches.

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