Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support

H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-18T21:54:18Z

Volker Ruppert wrote:
> Hi all!
>
>>> This would be the best solution. How do the bochs folks feel about this?
>> There is the pcbios project available at
>> http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pcbios It seems fairly out of date tho.
>> Volker, you happen to know the status?
>
> The PCBIOS project was based on the Bochs BIOS and started by Alex Beregszaszi
> in summer 2005. He was the project admin and I was a normal project member.
> We wanted to continue the Bochs BIOS development as a separate project. A few
> weeks later I no longer had CVS write access. I had a look at the project
> page on Savannah and found 0 members! I don't know what happend there. Alex
> had no time to take care of it and some time later he disappeared. So I
> continued the Bochs BIOS development inside of the Bochs project as usual.
>

So I guess it comes down to: should we re-try to set up a separate BIOS
project?

This is a fairly big deal... there are by now a number of consumers of
this BIOS beyond Bochs: at least Qemu, KVM, and Coreboot all use it. As
such, it would be highly advantageous if the core project was separate
and maintained in a DSCM (e.g. git or hg) so that a consumer who needs
to maintain their own tweaks can do so in a sane manner.

-hpa

--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.