Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] target-alpha: Emulate Alpha SX164.

[Alexander Graf]

On 17.04.2011, at 19:11, Richard Henderson wrote:

> On 04/17/2011 10:03 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 17 April 2011 17:14, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> 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.

We try to keep a reference in pc-bios/README on where it comes from and Anthony 
usually wants you to also add git submodule magic for easy cloning :).


Alex