From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon Subject: vgabios and other guest related firmware Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 22:44:38 -0600 Message-ID: <20080102044438.GB8605@tapir> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Avi, now that vgabios has been merged, would be probably a good idea to remove the unused vgabios BLOBs in the bios directory which were left from the import of the BOCHS bios (I have a patch but felt bad about sending it out with up to 96K) : bios/VGABIOS-lgpl-README | 214 bios/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest | Bin 38400 -> 0 bytes bios/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest-cirrus | Bin 35328 -> 0 bytes bios/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest-cirrus-debug | Bin 35840 -> 0 bytes bios/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest-debug | Bin 39936 -> 0 bytes in preparation for portability work, I suspect though might be a good idea to create a "firmware" tree were other firmware might be later added to support the non-PC architectures like ppc, ia64 and others that seem to be imminent. I'll let the specifics to all the portability interested parties (I mostly use PC) but would suspect something similar to the work done for the code should be most likely what is needed : firmware -- x86 -- bios | |- vgabios |- ia64 .. Carlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/