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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] doc: Remove old URL for Open Hack'Ware.
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Blue Swirl |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] doc: Remove old URL for Open Hack'Ware. |
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Sat, 6 Jun 2009 19:09:42 +0300 |
On 6/6/09, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> Blue Swirl schrieb:
>
> > On 6/6/09, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> The URL http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/ no longer exists.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <address@hidden>
> >
> > Removing only the references would mean that we'd have mysterious
> > binaries without any explanation in pc-bios. We should also delete
> > ppc_rom.bin, ohw.diff and support for loading OHW but that would make
> > PREP machine untestable.
>
>
> For insiders, there is nothing mysterious because they know
> the history.
>
> For other people, a URL which is invalid does not help,
> so the binaries are already mysterious today.
> I did not find any valid URL with the sources.
>
> Maybe the QEMU maintainers can add a git submodule
> containing the OHW sources from Debian's package
> openhackware?
http://www.openfirmware.info also contains a few open source
OpenFirmware implementations, perhaps OHW could be archived there.
> This was the latest contribution to the previous discussion:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-04/msg00312.html
>
> I came to the conclusion that PREP support is still wanted,
> so the binaries should remain part of QEMU.
IMHO for PREP to remain in working condition, OpenBIOS should be
ported to it, otherwise we can't change anything.