From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BjHfF-0001XF-Va for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:13:14 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BjHfE-0001X3-Et for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:13:13 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BjHfE-0001X0-De for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:13:12 -0400 Received: from [193.252.22.28] (helo=mwinf0304.wanadoo.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BjHcw-0001zy-6L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:10:50 -0400 Received: from bellard.org (ATuileries-112-1-4-169.w81-53.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.53.133.169]) by mwinf0304.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 70EF6A804126 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:10:49 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40EFEADE.40902@bellard.org> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:10:54 +0200 From: Fabrice Bellard MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Natalia Portillo wrote: > Well I didn't say about using a real commercial modular BIOS, but making the > QEMU BIOS modular as the commercial ones are. > > Making the first, will be a HARD task, and, Award/AMI/Phoenix/MrBIOS won't > let us to do that. > Both VMWare and VirtualPC pays for using a commercial BIOS in their > products. I don't care about the BIOS as long as it works with the hardware that QEMU emulates. I am very satisfied with the current Bochs BIOS. The only missing stuff is PCI init (it is currently done in QEMU), but it is very easy to add. Of course if other people want to try other BIOSes, they are free to do it :-) Fabrice.