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 11:52:08 +0200 Message-ID: <477B5EC8.4060101@qumranet.com> References: <20080102044438.GB8605@tapir> <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDCBB773B@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> <20080102093039.GC8605@tapir> <477B5B2F.7080304@qumranet.com> <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDCBB77B5@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon To: "Zhang, Xiantao" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDCBB77B5-wq7ZOvIWXbMAbVU2wMM1CrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> 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 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. -- 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/