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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Improving xen-qemu-dm-4.0 dependencies

To: Thomas Goirand <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Improving xen-qemu-dm-4.0 dependencies
From: Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:05:49 +0000
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On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 12:54 +0000, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 03/16/2011 08:18 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> I can second guess that I would need both vgabios and others. May
> >> someone give me an exhaustive and exact list, so that I don't do any
> >> mistake in fixing Debian bug #607490 ?
> > 
> > The vgabios and rombios used by Xen are not the same as the ones
> > used/provided by qemu. I think you need to use the stuff from
> > tools/firmware/{vga,rom}bios in the Xen source not anything provided by
> > qemu.
> > 
> > Ian.
> 
> Outch. Then I did a mistake, and currently in Squeeze, Xen qemu-dm is
> using the files from the "normal" qemu. I'll repair it right away in
> SID, and will try to have it uploaded to proposed-updates.
> 
> But what about the other files? I am 100% sure that xen qemu-dm needs at
> least few network card BIOS files.

I think you probably need the output of xen's tols/firmware/etherboot,
or at least that's whant Xen upstream tests with...

-- 
Ian Campbell

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned
things is ample.
                -- Rebecca West


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