Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port

[Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]

On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 20:17 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I ported GRUB to QEMU.  It's mostly based on the coreboot port, with the
> main difference being that we include code to transition from i8086 mode,
> an i386 firmware entry point and produce raw code images instead of ELF.

That's great news!  Eventually, it would be nice to have support for
many other platforms supported by qemu, such as arm and mips.  This way,
it will be possible to emulate many platforms in qemu without having to
implement the platform specific firmware.

> The result is you can do e.g.
> 
>   $ sudo grub-mkrawimage at_keyboard normal etc -o /usr/share/qemu/grub

Please consider if we can call it grub-mkimage unless grub-mkimage would
make sense as a separate executable for that platform.

> This patch is incomplete, still includes a few hacks and needs general
> cleanup.  I'll send a few cleanup patches separately so we can integrate
> this avoiding code duplication and ugly kludges.

It should be one of our priorities to make the code easy to maintain and
extend.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin