From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43803) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QBVV8-0007ip-F5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:11:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QBVV7-0008AJ-MT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:11:10 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:61165) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QBVV7-0008A7-I4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:11:09 -0400 Received: by pxi15 with SMTP id 15so8727796pxi.33 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Richard Henderson Message-ID: <4DAB1F2A.3080208@twiddle.net> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:11:06 -0700 From: Richard Henderson MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1303056876-14320-1-git-send-email-rth@twiddle.net> <1303056876-14320-6-git-send-email-rth@twiddle.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] target-alpha: Emulate Alpha SX164. List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 04/17/2011 10:03 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 17 April 2011 17:14, Richard Henderson 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~