Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Drop roms from standard build

[Paul Brook]

> > I think the chances of the user having appropriate toolchains readily
> > available (without significant additional per-rom configury) are
> > extremely slim.
>
> Actually, for x86, all of our ROMs will just use GCC so when building
> x86 on x86, it's very likely the right tool chain is available.

Except when it isn't, for example when building with a windows binary.
Also, x86 is only one of many targets qemu supports. If you're serious about 
rebuilding roms as standard, then at bare minimum you need to handle sparc and 
ppc as well as x86.

Paul