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Bug 400687 - app-emulation/qemu: needs to use sys-firmware/seabios & sys-firmware/vgabios
Summary: app-emulation/qemu: needs to use sys-firmware/seabios & sys-firmware/vgabios
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo QEMU Project
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: 409007 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2012-01-25 06:17 UTC by Doug Goldstein (RETIRED)
Modified: 2012-10-23 15:52 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-01-25 06:17:47 UTC 
app-emulation/qemu ships with binary pre-built blobs of SeaBIOS and vgabios. The builds are done on developers machines and committed to their repo, its unknown exactly what patches or modifications are done to these blobs. We should use the Gentoo provided builds when possible.
Comment 1 Martin Samek 2012-01-25 10:12:00 UTC 
vgabios failed to build for me:

rm -f _vgabios.debug_.s _vgabios.debug_.c vgabios.debug.s
mv vgabios.debug.bin VGABIOS-lgpl-latest.debug.bin
./biossums VGABIOS-lgpl-latest.debug.bin
make: ./biossums: Command not found
make: *** [vgabios.debug.bin] Error 127


should I start a new bug?
Comment 2 Martin Samek 2012-01-25 13:45:37 UTC 
Problem with compilation of vgabios on the no-multilib system is in Bug 400731.
Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-03-20 20:55:57 UTC 
*** Bug 409007 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-03-23 05:03:05 UTC 
Shipping (potentially) differend BIOSes for ppc and x86
does not sound like a good idea.

I've proposed possible solution:
    http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_741376a0e2da11f7828982a86086c84f.xml

It would address arch specific hacks in qemu-kvm ebuild.

> # FIXME: Need to come up with a solution for non-x86 based systems
> if use x86 || use amd64; then
> ...
Comment 5 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-10-23 15:52:50 UTC 
Fixed in the tree.