From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Sebastian Herbszt" <herbszt@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:28:45 +0100
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Cc: <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, "Jan Kiszka" <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
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To: "Anthony Liguori" <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	"Paul Brook" <paul@codesourcery.com>, "Volker" <info@vruppert.de>
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Paul Brook wrote:
>>> BTW, why does qemu not carry all bochs bios source? For reference, but
>>> also to fully comply with the LGPL (pointing to the original source is
>>> not sufficient when delivering binaries - like e.g. bios.bin...).
>>>     
>>
>> If this is really an issue, then I strongly suggest we fix it by moving the 
>> bios into its own project, and have everyone fetch it from there.
>>   
> 
> 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It seems fairly out of date tho.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?

- Sebastian