From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NTAtS-0002XO-0i for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:12:30 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NTAtQ-0002Uc-Ot for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:12:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54539 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NTAtQ-0002UH-Kn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:12:28 -0500 Received: from hall.aurel32.net ([88.191.82.174]:33649) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NTAtQ-00022L-B3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:12:28 -0500 Message-ID: <4B46F6F4.3050803@aurel32.net> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:12:20 +0100 From: Aurelien Jarno MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] write option roms in pc-bios/ References: <4B337318.6080901@redhat.com> <1261664861-15493-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <4B463DFC.5040505@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4B46DF6D.7060306@redhat.com> <4B46E554.7030801@aurel32.net> <4B46EAAB.2060300@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4B46EAAB.2060300@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Avi Kivity , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Juan Quintela Paolo Bonzini a écrit : > On 01/08/2010 08:57 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Paolo Bonzini a écrit : >>> On 01/07/2010 09:03 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>>> This will wreak havoc on the tree since these are built by default and >>>> they are replacing files in revision control. >>> ... the next question is why are they (linuxboot.bin and multiboot.bin) >>> in revision control since they do not require any strange tool to be built. >> They require an i386 cross compiler, which is not available on all >> installations. > > They are being built always anyway now, since their target > pc-bios/optionrom/linuxboot.bin does not exist on a checked out tree or > even a release tree. But no one has complained. They are only built on i386 and x86_64 hosts, look at the configure script. We should continue providing all the ROM binaries, even the x86 ones. We can't require that every installation has a (cross-)compiler for x86, the same way that we don't require a sparc or powerpc cross compiler for x86 installations. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net