Re: vgabios and other guest related firmware

Avi Kivity
2008-01-02T09:29:54Z

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> 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
>
>

A git patch would have been quite small. Anyway, I removed the files.

> 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
> ..
>

While this is a good suggestion, the mechanics of the cvs import -> git
conversion are nasty enough for me not to want to change things.

New firmware can certainly go into the new directory as you suggest.

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