Commit 6a0e2db073 for qemu.org
commit 6a0e2db07341ce02313923ed69fc9d3de4dcf9b5
Author: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Date: Mon Mar 30 23:18:49 2026 +0200
hw/hppa: Disable Artist graphics card on 64-bit machines
The original Artist graphics used the GSC bus, was often installed in old
32-bit machines (e.g. 715) and can not be used on 64-bit machines.
This is why this patch makes the artist driver dependend on the Lasi chip,
which was never used in a 64-bit machine.
Note that there exists a variant of Artist for the PCI-bus (Visualize-EG PCI).
It has quite some differences in the registers, and would require that we write
a PCI ROM for it, so that Linux and HP-UX would be able to use it.
Instead, for now, users can simply use a standard VGA or ATI PCI graphics card
on Linux. This can be enabled on the command line with "-device ati-vga" or
"-device VGA". If the "-nographic" option is omitted, a PCI OCHI controller
with USB keyboard and USB mouse will be added automatically.
This fixes graphics support on 64-bit hppa machines and allows us to boot up a
64-bit Linux installation with VGA graphics.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20260330211859.19317-3-deller@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
diff --git a/hw/hppa/machine.c b/hw/hppa/machine.c
index 3663bac53b..58e76bee2e 100644
--- a/hw/hppa/machine.c
+++ b/hw/hppa/machine.c
@@ -384,7 +384,8 @@ static void machine_HP_common_init_tail(MachineState *machine, PCIBus *pci_bus,
SysBusDevice *s;
/* Graphics setup. */
- if (machine->enable_graphics && vga_interface_type != VGA_NONE) {
+ if (lasi_dev && machine->enable_graphics &&
+ vga_interface_type != VGA_NONE) {
dev = qdev_new("artist");
s = SYS_BUS_DEVICE(dev);
bool disabled = object_property_get_bool(OBJECT(dev), "disable", NULL);