From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IvaKr-0004yu-PL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:20:53 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IvaKp-0004xZ-Iy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:20:52 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IvaKp-0004xK-Fi for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:20:51 -0500 Received: from atlas.linux2go.dk ([88.198.22.52]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IvaKo-00021r-Dp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:20:50 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:20:48 +0100 From: Soren Hansen Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] wrong bios.bin file in Ubuntu Linux 7.10 causes blue screen on w2k guest Message-ID: <20071123152048.GN3975@atlas.linux2go.dk> References: <4745CEBA.90206@alpharesearch.de> <20071123091353.GJ3975@atlas.linux2go.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uIq33vy618f2J7at" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org --uIq33vy618f2J7at Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:48:34PM +0100, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > > If that's really the case, I'm curious why it's distributed in its > > binary form rather than being built at runtime. > build-time? Yes, my mistake :) > Perhaps because the (cross-)compiler used to build the BIOS is not > present in many distros and would be a quite inconvenient dependency. > This is for the PC bios from bochs. That's a reasonable point.=20 > Now if all bioses shipped with qemu were built you would need some 4 > cross-toolchains. That's a good point. For us, however, the only alternative is to depend on other packages to provide these blobs (bochsbios, vgabios, openbios-sparc, etc). > Note that this code doesn't run in this form on the host Debian/Ubuntu > is on. That does not matter much. > It can well be treated as data, not code, like jpeg's shipped in > binary with a program.=20 The difference is that a jpeg is usually the original work and there is no source to distribute that can be used to regenerate the jpeg. >> I'm also not familiar with the changes in the bios.diff. Are they >> specific to qemu or could the theoretically be applied to upstream >> bochs without any ill side effects? > There are only two tiny changes, one is generic, one is qemu specific. Ok. I'll change our bochsbios build to build a specific QEMU bios with these changes. That should make everyone happy. I sense that any response to this e-mail would be off topic for the ml (even this mail is borderline), so please follow-up privately. --=20 Soren Hansen Ubuntu Server Team http://www.ubuntu.com/ --uIq33vy618f2J7at Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHRu/QonjfXui9pOMRAs/uAKCqrHzdIRrHHJNzer5Ab4drNxxt0ACdHGp8 Gs9KbFiUF4sOkMIqeXaNEkc= =+rAx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uIq33vy618f2J7at--