From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fo41N-0002L5-9t for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:48:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fo41J-0002KY-Hz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:48:53 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fo41J-0002KV-DD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:48:49 -0400 Received: from [65.74.133.6] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fo48y-00051y-86 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:56:44 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Switch to OpenBIOS for Sparc32/64? Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 20:48:42 +0100 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606072048.43573.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Blue Swirl Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wednesday 07 June 2006 20:24, Blue Swirl wrote: > >Sounds like a good idea to me, and the sooner the better. > >Even if we find some things that work with proll but not openbios I guess > >there's a good chance of getting openbios fixed. > > So I'll send you a patch that changes the name 'proll.elf' to > 'openbios-builtin.elf' (or maybe it's better to use something like > 'openbios-sparc32', simplifies the code) and a sample OpenBIOS file and > that's it? Yes. Plus documentation bits. Bonus points if you include a README describing where the bios comes from and basic description of how to reproduce it, even if this is just "download the openbios sources and they should just work". Paul