[Qemu-devel] newer bios in qemu

[Qemu-devel] newer bios in qemu

[Jens Arm]

Hi

I have see, that qemu uses a quit old bios.bin from bochs.
Is it possible to use a newer one? I have tried, but get errors.


The is a other very very slow emu called faumachine.org so for fun I have tried there bios, because
it is a bios where you can change things at boot like in real world.
But if I try to use it I get a SegFault :(
Any ideas?

Jens

Re: [Qemu-devel] newer bios in qemu

[Mike Swanson]

Why would the current BIOS matter anyway? It seems to be fine.


On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 07:38:48 +0100, Jens Arm <Jens.Arm@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have see, that qemu uses a quit old bios.bin from bochs.
> Is it possible to use a newer one? I have tried, but get errors.
> 
> The is a other very very slow emu called faumachine.org so for fun I have tried there bios, because
> it is a bios where you can change things at boot like in real world.
> But if I try to use it I get a SegFault :(
> Any ideas?
> 
> Jens
> 
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Re: [Qemu-devel] newer bios in qemu

[Fabrice Bellard]

Jens Arm wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have see, that qemu uses a quit old bios.bin from bochs.
> Is it possible to use a newer one? I have tried, but get errors.
> 
> 
> The is a other very very slow emu called faumachine.org so for fun I have tried there bios, because
> it is a bios where you can change things at boot like in real world.
> But if I try to use it I get a SegFault :(
> Any ideas?

Hi,

I am relunctant to upgrade the BIOS because it is likely to introduce 
regressions. I do it only when problems related to it are signaled.

Regarding configuration in the BIOS, it does not seem very useful yet, 
and the FAUmachine BIOS may use FAUmachine specific configuration I/Os.

Fabrice.