Re: vgabios and other guest related firmware

Zhang, Xiantao
2008-01-02T08:14:53Z

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
>
> 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

Good idea! We also need to upload the ia64 firmware for kvm, and make it
available for users use. At least, we need to provide the binary.
BTW, current ia64 binary has 2M size, is it OK to upload it to
kvm-source tree ?
Xiantao

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