Hi, > > A similar question exists about seabios and vgabios - for example, > > virtio-vga device always tries to load vgabios.rom on all architectures, > > while on non-x86 it is useless. > > In this case it is more dodgy. I vaguely recall some code for > interpreting these BIOSes somewhere. That is the x86 BIOS can run in > some emulation to provide the BIOS functionality on non-x86. Not sure > how much it's actually used in practice for the kinds of cards that qemu > emulates.
Only relevant in software museums. X11 has a vesa driver doing exactly this. It's only used in case your linux kernel is so old that it does not ship drm drivers for qemu vga devices. take care, Gerd
