Hi Daniel, Aaron.
On 11/26/19 3:19 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 06:14:27PM +0530, aaron.zakh...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Aaron Dominick <aaron.zakh...@gmail.com>
I have removed the botched patches and have got the code working upto the GART
initialization.
I am not sure how to implement the GART. I am guessing it should be an IOMMU
device but I think that is a bit much for an emulated card.
The earlier problem of display probing seems to be resolved by using an R300
bios I got from TechPowerUP's GPU database:
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/14509/14509
I am NOT sure if we can distribute it in the QEMU source tree. If it
does cause problems I can send a patch to remove it.
That site seems to be a repository of BIOS uploaded by arbitrary users,
with no information on what license terms might apply to the uploads.
We have to therefore assume the worst and treat the BIOS images on that
site as proprietary and not re-distributable, despite the fact that the
site itself is acting as a 3rd party distributor.
We can not redistribute this BIOS.
IOW, we can't have this in QEMU git I'm afraid, unless someone can find
a trustworthy vendor source for the original image with accompanying
license information.
Daniel, I think there is no problem if Aaron contributes a model of the
R300 device to QEMU, right? This doesn't involve redistributing any BIOS.
Aaron: I never received patches 1-4 and 10 of your series, not sure why,
maybe they are too big.
I recommend to rebase your series, squashing patch 9 over patch 5.
If you don't know about git-rebase, this blog is quite easy to understand:
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/git-interactive-rebase-squash-amend-rewriting-history
Regards,
Phil.
