On Tue, 18 Feb 2025, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 01:38:42PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
Hi!
Qemu system-mode emulation, when used with a NIC, loads a ROM file
for network booting (and fails to start if such file is not provided).
ROMs shipped in the source tarball are x86-onl
Hi,
> > A similar question exists about seabios and vgabios - for example,
> > virtio-vga device always tries to load vgabios.rom on all architectures,
> > while on non-x86 it is useless.
>
> In this case it is more dodgy. I vaguely recall some code for
> interpreting these BIOSes somewhere. Th
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 12:49:07PM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 11:26:32AM +, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > this came up because these rom files are somewhat difficult to build
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 11:26:32AM +, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > this came up because these rom files are somewhat difficult to build on
> > non-x86, and distributions that have problem with distributing blobs
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this came up because these rom files are somewhat difficult to build on
> non-x86, and distributions that have problem with distributing blobs
> verbatim may be missing them.
How is the proposal going to help distros th
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 01:38:42PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Qemu system-mode emulation, when used with a NIC, loads a ROM file
> for network booting (and fails to start if such file is not provided).
> ROMs shipped in the source tarball are x86-only, so such loading does
> nothing o
Hello,
this came up because these rom files are somewhat difficult to build on
non-x86, and distributions that have problem with distributing blobs
verbatim may be missing them.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 01:38:42PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Qemu system-mode emulation, when used with
Hi!
Qemu system-mode emulation, when used with a NIC, loads a ROM file
for network booting (and fails to start if such file is not provided).
ROMs shipped in the source tarball are x86-only, so such loading does
nothing on non-x86, where we just wasting guest memory, - since the
ROM code can not
