From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LDQmx-0001Nn-PY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:52:11 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LDQmw-0001MT-MP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:52:11 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35910 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDQmw-0001ME-2Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:52:10 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47951) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LDQmv-0002NU-JR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:52:09 -0500 Message-ID: <494AC4C7.4000005@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:46:47 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support References: <1229440810-12394-1-git-send-email-Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> <494933AC.2070405@codemonkey.ws> <9A079538C07E4AA1BA7D050229FC05A5@FSCPC> <200812180959.25572.info@vruppert.de> In-Reply-To: <200812180959.25572.info@vruppert.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: Volker Ruppert Cc: kvm developers , Gleb Natapov , Jan Kiszka , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl , bochs developers , Paul Brook , Sebastian Herbszt 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 http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pcbios It seems fairly out of date tho.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.