From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:46:47 -0800 Message-ID: <494AC4C7.4000005@zytor.com> References: <1229440810-12394-1-git-send-email-Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> <494933AC.2070405@codemonkey.ws> <9A079538C07E4AA1BA7D050229FC05A5@FSCPC> <200812180959.25572.info@vruppert.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sebastian Herbszt , Anthony Liguori , Paul Brook , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jan Kiszka , Gleb Natapov , Blue Swirl , bochs developers , kvm developers To: Volker Ruppert Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:59736 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751796AbYLRVyS (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:54:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200812180959.25572.info@vruppert.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pcbios It seems fairly out of date tho.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.