Re: Bochs / VGA-Bios license question / freebios anyone?

[goswin . brederlow]

Ulrich Eckhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:
> > As Goswin mentioned earlier it's also possible to use bochs with some
> > other bios 
> [snip]
> 
> I´m not sure if this even touches this discussion but what about using the 
> bios
> that is already present on most computers? 
> Wouldn´t that reduce the dependencies to nil?

If you tell me how to read that and how to make simulate the same
hardware it runs on down to the last bit.

If the user has a PII-X ide controler you must emulate that, if he has
a Promise ide controler, you must emulate that. Now way.

MfG
Goswin

Re: Bochs / VGA-Bios license question / freebios anyone?

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:
> As Goswin mentioned earlier it's also possible to use bochs with some
> other bios 
[snip]

I´m not sure if this even touches this discussion but what about using the bios
that is already present on most computers? 
Wouldn´t that reduce the dependencies to nil?

cheerio
Uli

Re: Bochs / VGA-Bios license question / freebios anyone?

[Andrew Lenharth]

I originally ITPed bochs.  Unfortunately it would have to go in non-free.
the VGA-BIOS included is licensed only for use and distribution with
bochs.  It therefor cannot be seperated into a seperate package from
bochs (and if bochs is packaged, it should ge removed from the source
archive.

Andrew Lenharth

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   just nod your head and back away slowly... 

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On 14 Aug 2000, Peter Makholm wrote:

> Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > That sounds as if non-free is the right place. Or the best is you make two
> > packages: A vga-bios package in non-free and a bochs package in contrib.
> 
> But why would this be better that a complete package in contrib. Is
> bochs useable without the vga-bios or is the vga-bios useable for
> other things than bochs?
> 
> I was about to package bochs a couple of months ago but this was one
> of the things stopping me.
> 
> 
> 
> And then it neither booted my QNX, Eros or Plan9 boot disks.
> 
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> Peter
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