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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Alex Graf <alex@csgraf.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/4] Update makefile to build roms
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 05:24:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090518042445.GD32609@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905180043.43205.paul@codesourcery.com>

Paul Brook wrote:
> > In general, QEMU does not support anything but lock-step versioning with
> > it's ROMs.  There is no ABI between QEMU and the BIOS.
> 
> This is obviously false for things like PXE roms.
> 
> > Having multiple packages therefore makes little sense because they can
> > never be independent of each other.
> 
> Depends how your build system is setup.  IMHO building a ROM and
> building qemu itself are different tasks that effectively need
> separate packages anyway.

And when built for a distribution, perhaps QEMU, BIOS and PXE should
be separate packages anyway, with QEMU depending on the others (or
perhaps "recommending").

-- Jamie

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-18  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-17 15:28 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4][RFC] Bring ROM source into tree via git submodules Anthony Liguori
2009-05-17 15:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Add GPL bios as a submodule Anthony Liguori
2009-05-17 15:43   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-05-17 15:49     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-17 16:23       ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-17 17:51         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-17 18:03           ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-17 18:05           ` Stanislav
2009-05-17 18:11             ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-17 18:37               ` Stanislav
2009-05-17 19:07                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-17 22:12                   ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2009-05-17 22:40                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-17 23:22                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-18 15:20                   ` ron minnich
2009-05-18  2:40                 ` Kevin O'Connor
2009-05-17 23:13             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-18  4:22               ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-25 13:04                 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2009-05-17 23:09         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-17 23:23           ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-17 23:31             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-17 23:40               ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-18  1:17                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-18  5:48                   ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-17 17:10   ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-05-17 15:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] Add submodule for VGABios Anthony Liguori
2009-05-17 15:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Update makefile to build roms Anthony Liguori
2009-05-17 15:46   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-05-17 15:47     ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-17 15:53     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-17 17:16       ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-17 23:10         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-17 22:04       ` Paul Brook
2009-05-17 23:28         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-17 23:43           ` Paul Brook
2009-05-18  1:18             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-18  4:24             ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-05-18  8:25               ` Riku Voipio
2009-05-18  8:35                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-17 15:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Allow tool chain to be specified for bios build Anthony Liguori

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