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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] target-alpha: Emulate Alpha SX164.
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:11:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DAB1F2A.3080208@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=G8HYp8bJe=YzEbpt1NOrN1GJHaQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/17/2011 10:03 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 17 April 2011 17:14, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> wrote:
>> Delete the old partial support for alpha-softmmu, which kind-of tried
>> to emulate real HW and its PALcode.  Instead, use a custom HW interface
>> for a custom PALcode.  Wire up as much of the device emulation as is
>> available.
> 
>>  pc-bios/palcode-sx164             |  Bin 0 -> 107781 bytes
> 
> My personal opinion is that if we have the binary blob in qemu git
> we should also have its corresponding source code.
> 

How does this differ from e.g. SeaBios?

And while I might agree that this ought to be in-tree, this isn't
true for any of the other blobs we currently have in-tree.  We 
don't really have any configury for cross-compilation of the bios bits.


r~

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-17 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-17 16:14 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Alpha system emulation Richard Henderson
2011-04-17 16:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Export the unassigned_mem read/write functions Richard Henderson
2011-04-17 16:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] target-alpha: Disassemble EV6 PALcode instructions Richard Henderson
2011-04-17 16:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] pci: Export pci_to_cpu_addr Richard Henderson
2011-04-17 16:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] target-alpha: Prepare for Alpha BIOS images Richard Henderson
2011-04-17 16:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] target-alpha: Emulate Alpha SX164 Richard Henderson
2011-04-17 16:42   ` Alexander Graf
2011-04-17 17:12     ` Richard Henderson
2011-04-17 18:22       ` Alexander Graf
2011-04-17 17:03   ` Peter Maydell
2011-04-17 17:11     ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2011-04-17 18:23       ` Alexander Graf
2011-04-17 18:26         ` Richard Henderson
2011-04-17 18:31           ` Alexander Graf
2011-04-18  6:58             ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-04-18  9:22       ` Peter Maydell

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