[Qemu-devel] Re: Where's gpxe-eepro100-80862449.rom ?

[Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>]

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Am 12.10.2010 14:41, schrieb Markus Armbruster:
> Commit db667a12 added a reference to ROM file
> gpxe-eepro100-80862449.rom, but no such file. Intentional?

Yes. See 
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-05/msg00418.html

Citation from my former mail:

    Yes, it is missing. I did not add it for several reasons:

    * The new variant i82801 (which needs the missing ROM) is currently
    not available
    via model=i82801 (it can be selected by experts using other methods).

    * Experts can get the missing ROM from ROM-o-matic.

    * All three ROMs differ only in one or two bytes (device id). That's
    a waste
    of binary space (56832 bytes!). Therefore I plan to remove all but
    the first
    ROM file. The missing ones can be created by make or patched on the
    fly by
    QEMU during load. Maybe it is also possible to create ROM files
    which support
    more than one vendor/device entry - that would be the best solution.


There is still nothing new regarding these last points
because I did not spend any time on them.

Do you think there is urgent need for a gpxe-eepro100-80862449.rom binary?


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