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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppc: Add MacOS VGA driver ROM


From: Gerd Hoffmann
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppc: Add MacOS VGA driver ROM
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:25:19 +0200

On Di, 2016-08-02 at 07:24 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-08-01 at 21:38 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >   Hi,
> > 
> > > So, I believe qemu convention is to include the ROM source via a
> > > submodule - even though it won't typically be built from there and
> > the
> > > prebuilt blob will be used instead.
> > 
> > Correct.  Also rules in roms/Makefile to build the thing, to document
> > the build process and to simplify the maintainer's job on updates.
> 
> That's the part we cannot provide unfortunately. There is sadly no
> toolchain that can produce a MacOS PEF binary other than hosted in
> MacOS itself. In fact I don't think Apple XCode can either, which
> leaves us with CodeWarrior (commercial) or MPW (which I think at some
> point became free but I didn't find it and it doesn't work on OS X
> afaik).

Firmware builds often have specific requirements, such as only working
on $arch due to firmware not being cross-buildable (thats why there are
the prebuilt binaries in the first place).  So if those makefile rules
work only on macos with CodeWarrior installed that is perfectly fine.

cheers,
  Gerd




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