From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: vgabios and other guest related firmware Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:29:54 +0200 Message-ID: <477B5992.9060704@qumranet.com> References: <20080102044438.GB8605@tapir> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080102044438.GB8605@tapir> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org 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. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/