Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add BIOS splash image support

[H. Peter Anvin]

Volker Ruppert wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
>>> This would be the best solution.  How do the bochs folks feel about this?
>> There is the pcbios project available at
>> http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pcbios It seems fairly out of date tho.
>> Volker, you happen to know the status?
> 
> The PCBIOS project was based on the Bochs BIOS and started by Alex 
> Beregszaszi 
> in summer 2005. He was the project admin and I was a normal project member. 
> We wanted to continue the Bochs BIOS development as a separate project. A few 
> weeks later I no longer had CVS write access. I had a look at the project 
> page on Savannah and found 0 members! I don't know what happend there. Alex 
> had no time to take care of it and some time later he disappeared. So I 
> continued the Bochs BIOS development inside of the Bochs project as usual.
> 

So I guess it comes down to: should we re-try to set up a separate BIOS
project?

This is a fairly big deal... there are by now a number of consumers of
this BIOS beyond Bochs: at least Qemu, KVM, and Coreboot all use it.  As
such, it would be highly advantageous if the core project was separate
and maintained in a DSCM (e.g. git or hg) so that a consumer who needs
to maintain their own tweaks can do so in a sane manner.

        -hpa

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