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From: | Avi Kivity |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add GPL bios as a submodule |
Date: | Sun, 17 May 2009 21:03:45 +0300 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) |
Jamie Lokier wrote:
Avi Kivity wrote:Let's only include seabios then and reject all patches to the bochs bios. If that doesn't motivate people to switch, nothing will.Is there a technical reason why should people switch, other than you want them to? Is Bochs BIOS broken in some difficult to fix way?
bochs bios is written in 16-bit assembly and a mix of 16-bit C and 32-bit gcc. It requires a special toolchain (bcc/dev86), the code is (no disrespect to its authors) quite nasty.
seabios is mostly C (gcc, not dev86) and well written and maintained. No doubt you could fix the bochs bios to have these attributes, but then I'd ask if there is a technical reason why we should do that rather than switch to seabios.
-- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.
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