Re: vgabios and other guest related firmware

Avi Kivity
2008-01-02T09:52:08Z

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.

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