From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ie51g-0001dw-V5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:28:45 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ie51d-0001b9-3R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:28:44 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ie51c-0001ay-I1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:28:40 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ie51c-00016n-Df for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:28:40 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 30so681442nfu for ; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:28:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 11:28:36 +0300 From: "Blue Swirl" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu/pc-bios ppc_rom.bin In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1191222768.16080.0.camel@bxl-cdrw.bxl.cronos-technologies.com> <36FA7E24-859B-4033-BB37-2C8453D81677@web.de> <1191253624.3514.56.camel@jma4.dev.netgem.com> <20071001185627.GI13317@networkno.de> <20071001215741.GA16772@networkno.de> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 10/5/07, Natalia Portillo wrote: > It is desiderable for QEMU, > no way, > IT IS A MUST FOR QEMU, > to be able to boot real firmware that boots in the real hardware QEMU is > emulating. > > (That is, if QEMU emulates a PIIX4 with Pentium II, it must support booting > a BIOS for P2+PIIX4, but must not support booting a BIOS for a > Athlon+nForce) > > And, extrapolate what I say to PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, Alpha, Sparc, so on! Please send your patches to fix the bugs in this area to the list. ;-)