I agree with AW's general assessment that you need to decide if it's
worth your time and risk to hardware in $'s before undertaking any sort
of bios mod but if your just using the bios in qemu it should be
relatively safe and potentially incredibly easy. The radeon UEFI GOP
itself is generic
I don't know anything about wayland.
Part of the problem with PCI addresses is that they can change, device IDs
cannot. Depending on how the BIOS enumerates devices, adding or removing a
card may change the device address. Kernel options like pci=assign-busses
can also change the address of a de
Great answers, as expected. Some smaller miniquestions/comments followups
>> 1) The host using UEFI or legacy BIOS and VGA support is irrelevant. In an
>> ideal world, maybe this wouldn't be the case, but Xorg wants exclusive
>> access to VGA even though it probably
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:43 AM, Zir Blazer wrote:
>
> I expect to get AW to reply this time, heh. Seriously, I can't make wall
> of texts smaller than this since i always try to explain context and my
> thoughs.
>
Not into the whole brevity thing huh? I found this one challenging to get
throug
> I think I was in a similar situation before. I am using Haswell CPU
> with its integrated graphics for host OS booted on UEFI board. I have
> VGA arbitration disabled in the kernel. I am using a Radeon 7870 to
> passthrough to the guest, and this card did not have UEFI firmware
> available. I obt
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Zir Blazer wrote:
> I'm sure I asked this before and was expecting AW tehnical response, but
> instead he said "TL;DR" since it was in a ridiculous long mail with a
> multitude of other questions. But now I need a response since I plan to do
> this next week, so
Switched from plain text to enriched text format. I ALWAYS forget when mailing
here that the archive does not automatically warp lines if using plain text.
I'm sure I asked this before and was expecting AW tehnical response, but
instead he said "TL;DR" since
I'm sure I asked this before and was expecting AW tehnical response, but
instead he said "TL;DR" since it was in a ridiculous long mail with a multitude
of other questions. But now I need a response since I plan to do this next
week, so I have to try again.
I have readed this numerous times an
