Apparently the QEMU folks build their bios.bin from bochs' CVS trunk. bochs 2.3 is far too old--it does not even include the files patched by QEMU's bios.diff.
Presumably we don't want to force the bochs maintainers to keep updating their bochs packages to the latest version in bochs' cvs, and/or to keep updating their package with QEMU's bios.diff. Given that it is not likely that QEMU's patches (which are more extensive in QEMU's CVS trunk) are not likely to be merged upstream into bochs any time soon, I think it's best if a separate bochsbios-qemu source package is introduced, that will build the required BIOS file. Thoughts? Oh, I've not looked into the vgabios.diff or any of the other binaries missing from Debian's qemu package since I'm assuming they are not necessary for -kernel-qemu to function. Ideally it'd be nice to get them built eventually. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078
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