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Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 19:09:42 +0300
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] doc: Remove old URL for Open Hack'Ware.
From: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
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To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>

On 6/6/09, Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> wrote:
> Blue Swirl schrieb:
>
> > On 6/6/09, Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> wrote:
>  >> The URL http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/ no longer exists.
>  >>
>  >> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
>  >
>  > Removing only the references would mean that we'd have mysterious
>  > binaries without any explanation in pc-bios. We should also delete
>  > ppc_rom.bin, ohw.diff and support for loading OHW but that would make
>  > PREP machine untestable.
>
>
> For insiders, there is nothing mysterious because they know
>  the history.
>
>  For other people, a URL which is invalid does not help,
>  so the binaries are already mysterious today.
>  I did not find any valid URL with the sources.
>
>  Maybe the QEMU maintainers can add a git submodule
>  containing the OHW sources from Debian's package
>  openhackware?

http://www.openfirmware.info also contains a few open source
OpenFirmware implementations, perhaps OHW could be archived there.

>  This was the latest contribution to the previous discussion:
>
>  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-04/msg00312.html
>
>  I came to the conclusion that PREP support is still wanted,
>  so the binaries should remain part of QEMU.

IMHO for PREP to remain in working condition, OpenBIOS should be
ported to it, otherwise we can't change anything.