Bug#817260: Wish: Replace virtualbox's guest BIOS with Coreboot

2017-06-17 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
>Can anyone link to the decision to remove Virtualbox? remove from *where* >According to the Virtualbox ticket at https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12011"; >By the way, we provide alternative sources (assembly) of the components that >normally get built with OpenWatcom, so VirtualBox can be b

Bug#817260: Wish: Replace virtualbox's guest BIOS with Coreboot

2017-06-17 Thread Jes Slow
Can anyone link to the decision to remove Virtualbox? According to the Virtualbox ticket at https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12011"; > By the way, we provide alternative sources (assembly) of the components > that normally get built with OpenWatcom, so VirtualBox can be built without > it.

Bug#817260: Wish: Replace virtualbox's guest BIOS with Coreboot

2016-03-11 Thread persmule
Hi, Then I may have to choose letting the idea die, for MIT cannot protect our freedom. Anyway, we already have qemu... 在 2016年03月11日 21:40, Gianfranco Costamagna 写道: Hi, I cannot put it under MIT license if I

Bug#817260: Wish: Replace virtualbox's guest BIOS with Coreboot

2016-03-11 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >I cannot put it under MIT license if I start to work, because Coreboot uses >GPL. if you can't comply with Oracle License agreement or MIT [1] [2] I'm not sure it can be released in Debian as-is... cheers, G. [1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Contributor_information [2] https:/

Bug#817260: Wish: Replace virtualbox's guest BIOS with Coreboot

2016-03-11 Thread persmule
Hi, I cannot put it under MIT license if I start to work, because Coreboot uses GPL. persmule 在 2016年03月11日 21:24, Gianfranco Costamagna 写道: Hi, if you can provide one, I'll be happy to forward it upstream. Just a few notes: p

Bug#817260: Wish: Replace virtualbox's guest BIOS with Coreboot

2016-03-11 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, if you can provide one, I'll be happy to forward it upstream. Just a few notes: please put it under MIT license, and please sync with Oracle developers, to know how and if they are interested in it. I would really like to avoid having such an huge difference between Debian and Upstream, such

Bug#817260: Wish: Replace virtualbox's guest BIOS with Coreboot

2016-03-11 Thread Persmule
Hi, Because the toolchain to build the bios is non-free, which causes the whole virtualbox is unable to put in main repository. So it may be helpful to use a bios implementation which can be build by a free toolchain. persmule 在 2016年03月11日 19:50, Gianfr

Bug#817260: Wish: Replace virtualbox's guest BIOS with Coreboot

2016-03-11 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >Coreboot is a project to reimplement firmware of computer, it is not a >software running atop any operating system. the bios of virtualbox is completely open source, I'm not sure what is your point here :) >Coreboot is at https://www.coreboot.org/, which has not been included >within debia

Bug#817260: Wish: Replace virtualbox's guest BIOS with Coreboot

2016-03-11 Thread Persmule
Hi. Coreboot is a project to reimplement firmware of computer, it is not a software running atop any operating system. Coreboot is at https://www.coreboot.org/, which has not been included within debian. And I have never been working on virtualbox. Now I am only a Coreboot user and potential dev

Bug#817260: Wish: Replace virtualbox's guest BIOS with Coreboot

2016-03-11 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi, Tianming, can you please point me to the coreboot package in debian unstable? I have difficulties in finding it, and a patch for building it would be apppreciated. cheers, G. Il Mercoledì 9 Marzo 2016 15:39, Tianming Xie ha scritto: Package: virtualbox Sever

Bug#817260: Wish: Replace virtualbox's guest BIOS with Coreboot

2016-03-09 Thread Tianming Xie
Package: virtualbox Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, As far as I know, the reason why virtualbox is moved to contrib is the toolchain to build the guest BIOS is non-free. The source code of the BIOS itself is viewable. So is it possible to reimplement the guest bios atop Coreboot, which alread