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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:19:17 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] New way of working with upstream Bochs BIOS
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To: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
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Andre Przywara wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> I've setup a git mirror of Bochs on repo.or.cz.  I've also 
>> restructured the bios.diff into a patch queue and recorded what 
>> changeset we're using.  Now, to recreate the bios.bin that we ship, 
>> use the following instructions:
> Nice. But is requiring guilt (ever googled for it ;-) and poking 
> around in .git really necessary? I'd suggest to force all patches to 
> be in a (at least simulated) mbox format (as 0002-0005 are) and using 
> "git am" in a for loop.

The patches are in a pretty reasonable format right now.  Normal patch 
with the description above.

The use of guilt is just a suggestion.  However you want to work with 
the patches is fine.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori