Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [Qemu-commits] [COMMIT c34ebfd] Bring pcbios, seabios, and vgabios into the tree as git submodules. Right now,

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:02:08AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> Hi Isaku,
>>
>> Isaku Yamahata wrote:
>>     
>>> Is there any documentation available about where those git repo are and 
>>> how to compile?
>>>
>>> Fortunately I was able to find the repo
>>> in git.qemu.org by digging out the ML archive.
>>> However there should be some kind of description
>>> in pc-bios/README or somewhere else.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Good point, I'll work on that.
>>     
>
> What happened to this?
> At this moment, there is no document which describes the official
> procedure to compile BIOSes.
> I suppose this kind of document is suitable for 0.12.0 release.
>   

There's really nothing that clever about it.

$ git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git
$ cd qemu
$ git submodule update --init
$ cd roms/seabios
$ make
$ cp out/bios.bin ../../pc-bios/bios.bin

The last three steps could be totally automated by the build system.  
That's what I'd like to see.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori