Re: [PATCH 0/6] hppa: Artist graphics driver fixes for HP-UX

[Helge Deller]

On 5/16/22 09:19, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 12/05/2022 00:50, Helge Deller wrote:
>
>> This series adds additional HP fonts to the SeaBIOS-hppa firmware.
>>
>> And in the qemu artist graphics driver it:
>> - fixes the vertical postioning of the X11 cursor with HP-UX
>> - allows X11 to blank the screen (e.g. screensaver)
>> - allows the X11 driver to turn the X11 cursor on/off
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
>>
>> Helge Deller (6):
>>    seabios-hppa: Update SeaBIOS-hppa to VERSION 4
>>    artist: Introduce constant for max cursor size
>>    artist: Use human-readable variable names instead of reg_xxx
>>    artist: Fix vertical X11 cursor position in HP-UX
>>    artist: Allow to turn cursor on or off
>>    artist: Emulate screen blanking
>>
>>   hw/display/artist.c       | 134 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>>   pc-bios/hppa-firmware.img | Bin 701964 -> 715240 bytes
>>   roms/seabios-hppa         |   2 +-
>>   3 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.35.3
>
> I've applied these patches to latest git and done a quick test with
> my cut-down Linux image and the latest HPPA image at
> https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Qemu, and confirmed I can
> successfully switch fonts without seeing any other graphical issues.
> This isn't a particularly comprehensive test though, since I don't
> have a copy of HP-UX and the latest HPPA image doesn't have X
> installed.

Thanks for testing anyway. I agree, there are not many people who
can test the HP-UX graphics changes...

> From a general QEMU perspective the patches look okay, except for the
> separate patch posted after the original series which fails
> checkpatch due to styling issues around the block comments.

Argh... I just sent out v2 but missed to fix the style issues.
Please ignore v2 - I will send out a v3 soon....

> It is possible to do this directly on a checkout of the git source
> tree with "./scripts/checkpatch.pl master..HEAD", or once you have
> the final PR ready to go then a push to GitLab to confirm it passes
> CI should help locate any potential problems.

Can you give some more info about this GitLab integration?
I'm currently using github for my tree...

> I don't have any knowledge of the internals of the artist framebuffer, but 
> feel free to add an:
>
> Acked-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
>
> when you respin the v2. It's not far off a Tested-by but I don't feel I can 
> offer that without being able to test a HP-UX X environment.

Thanks!

Helge