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I wonder if it would be possible to pass through an era appropriate graphics card to QEMU instead? If one can dump the Mac VBIOS for an old PCI Radeon card and

I wonder if it would be possible to pass through an era appropriate graphics card to QEMU instead? If one can dump the Mac VBIOS for an old PCI Radeon card and attach it to a supported motherboard, would it be possible to get the machine to use that GPU? Obviously the host system can't touch it since it's providing PPC code, but if it's all being handled inside QEMU itself it seems plausible enough

WesolyKubeczek 4y ago
VFIO doesn’t work on emulated architectures. Maybe on Talos it could kinda sorta start, but then again, you’d have to build a contraption to physically fit old PCI into PCIe. You could also start a reverse engineering effort for one of those old cards and emulate it properly in QEMU. Once done, it would be much faster than the original. It could be ready by the time my grandkids entered adulthood.