On Mon, Apr 16, 2007, Sam Morris wrote: > 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?
Sounds sane; are the QEMU patches distributed with QEMU or separately? In the first case, I think it shouldn't need a new source package, int eh second case perhaps it should, perhaps not. > 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. I think these should be dealt with too; I got plenty of crashes in seemingly graphical drivers too. -- Loïc Minier