Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/24]: add alpha es40 system emulation

[Tristan Gingold]

On Mar 13, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:

> On 3/13/09, Tristan Gingold <address@hidden> wrote:
> > this patch series adds alpha system emulation for the es40.  The  
> > work is
> > not yet complete (don't expect to boot an OS) but enough to get the  
> > firmware
> > prompt.

[...]

> Nice work.

Thanks!

> Is there a free/open source BIOS available for Alpha?

Not really.  Milo is open source and could be used to boot Linux but  
only on rather old machines.

> Do
> you think OpenBIOS for Alpha would be interesting?

Alpha has its own firmware which is not IEEE-1275 compliant.
(And I am not sure it is worth spending time on writing Alpha firmware!)

Tristan.