[virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH] Add virtio gpu driver.

One Thousand Gnomes gnomes at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Mar 26 09:52:07 PDT 2015


> It's not about virtio at all.  It's about vga compatibility, so we have
> a simple framebuffer as boot display.  Only used when virtio is *not*
> enabled.

VGA can be a separate device altogether.

In fact there were *real* PCI graphics cards that did this and had a
register than flipped the output source over.

Alan


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