Re: vgabios and other guest related firmware

Zhang, Xiantao
2008-01-02T09:57:00Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.

OK, maybe we can include basic source in kvm source tree, and let user
download EDK tools from tiano website at build time. It should be more
accepted, since basic souce package is not so big:)
Xiantao