[Qemu-devel] Re: Where's gpxe-eepro100-80862449.rom ?

[Markus Armbruster]

Stefan Weil <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 12.10.2010 14:41, schrieb Markus Armbruster:
>> Commit db667a12 added a reference to ROM file
>> gpxe-eepro100-80862449.rom, but no such file. Intentional?
>
> Yes. See
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-05/msg00418.html
>
> Citation from my former mail:
>
>    Yes, it is missing. I did not add it for several reasons:
>
>    * The new variant i82801 (which needs the missing ROM) is currently
>    not available
>    via model=i82801 (it can be selected by experts using other methods).

It's available via -device i82801.  -net nic,model= is obsolescent.

>    * Experts can get the missing ROM from ROM-o-matic.
>
>    * All three ROMs differ only in one or two bytes (device id). That's
>    a waste
>    of binary space (56832 bytes!). Therefore I plan to remove all but
>    the first
>    ROM file. The missing ones can be created by make or patched on the
>    fly by
>    QEMU during load. Maybe it is also possible to create ROM files
>    which support
>    more than one vendor/device entry - that would be the best solution.

No objections to creating by make or on load, but I'd be just fine with
the duplicated ROMs.  Disk space waste in the order of 100KiB is lost in
the noise nowadays.  My qemu/.git is >100MiB, and my build tree for all
targets ~1.5GiB.

> There is still nothing new regarding these last points
> because I did not spend any time on them.
>
> Do you think there is urgent need for a gpxe-eepro100-80862449.rom binary?

Well, "-device i82801" complains because it misses this binary.  Do we
want to ship that way?