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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: "Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
	Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
	<carenas-kLeDWSohozoJb6fo7hG9ng@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: vgabios and other guest related firmware
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:52:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <477B5EC8.4060101@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDCBB77B5-wq7ZOvIWXbMAbVU2wMM1CrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>

Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
>>
>> Note that we ship x86 binaries for two reasons:
>> - qemu does it that way, and we inherited it, before the need arose to
>> make modifications
>> - obscure tools are needed to build the binaries (iasl and dev86)
>>
>> Since ia64 doesn't have these issues (is that right?) then we can
>> probably do a source-only release.
>>     
>
> Ia64 firmware build need edk tools(very big package), and very hard to
> setup the environment correclty.  And it is not friendly to users :(
> Maybe binary is also needed. 
>   

In that case, we can do source+binary distribution like x86.

-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-02  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-02  4:44 vgabios and other guest related firmware Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-02  8:14 ` Zhang, Xiantao
     [not found]   ` <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDCBB773B-wq7ZOvIWXbMAbVU2wMM1CrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-02  9:30     ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-02  9:36       ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]         ` <477B5B2F.7080304-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-02  9:46           ` Zhang, Xiantao
     [not found]             ` <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDCBB77B5-wq7ZOvIWXbMAbVU2wMM1CrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-02  9:52               ` Avi Kivity [this message]
     [not found]                 ` <477B5EC8.4060101-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-02  9:57                   ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-01-02 10:29               ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-02  9:54       ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-01-02  9:29 ` Avi Kivity

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