27 Mar
2015
27 Mar
'15
8:08 a.m.
Hi,
Completely different thing crossing my mind: I think we can make virtio-vga fully compatible with stdvga. stdvga has two bars, memory (#0) and mmio (#2). We can make the mmio bar larger and place all the virtio regions there.
Full compatibility with some standard sounds like a better motivation, yes.
Ok, I'll look into it.
I think in any case I'll go split off the vga compatibility bits to a different patch (and possible a separate patch series).
cheers, Gerd
Will you still need me to change core to claim specific memory only?
That would be great, yes. The resource conflict with vesafb/efifb will stay no matter how we design the pci resource layout of virtio-vga.
cheers, Gerd