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To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>

Blue Swirl schrieb:
> On 6/6/09, Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> wrote:
>> The URL http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/ no longer exists.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
>
> Removing only the references would mean that we'd have mysterious
> binaries without any explanation in pc-bios. We should also delete
> ppc_rom.bin, ohw.diff and support for loading OHW but that would make
> PREP machine untestable.

For insiders, there is nothing mysterious because they know
the history.

For other people, a URL which is invalid does not help,
so the binaries are already mysterious today.
I did not find any valid URL with the sources.

Maybe the QEMU maintainers can add a git submodule
containing the OHW sources from Debian's package
openhackware?

This was the latest contribution to the previous discussion:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-04/msg00312.html

I came to the conclusion that PREP support is still wanted,
so the binaries should remain part of QEMU.

Stefan