Re: [coreboot] [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

[Natalia Portillo]

Correct me if I'm wrong but most the IA64 opcodes can be derived from  
IA32 emulation isn't it why both are "Intel Architecture"?

El 04/10/2009, a las 01:01, Jordan Justen escribió:

> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 16:39, Natalia Portillo <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
> > El 03/10/2009, a las 23:13, Jordan Justen escribió:
> >
> > > On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 10:40, ron minnich <address@hidden>  
> > > wrote:
> > > > I use qemu for a lot of coreboot work. I really depend on qemu for
> > > > many things I do, not just coreboot related. The qemu target in
> > > > coreboot has been very heavily used by us to test out new ideas.
> > > >
> > > > That said, I don't see a compelling need to augment seabios with
> > > > coreboot on qemu *in the standard distribution*. If seabios gets  
> > > > the
> > > > job done, and gets OSes booted, I think that's sufficient. I  
> > > > don't see
> > > > a need to complicate anyone's life with something that is, after  
> > > > all,
> > > > a sideshow for qemu users.
> > > >
> > > > Conversely, I don't see the need to add the huge pile of stuff that
> > > > comes with UEFI/OVMF/whatever to qemu either. One might argue that
> > >
> > > This is a valid argument right now.  OS X is the only OS today that
> > > targets UEFI, and specifically not legacy BIOS.  But, in 5 ~ 10  
> > > years
> > > that might not be the case.
> >
> > Wrong case.
> >
> > Itanium architecture ONLY uses UEFI.
> > Having already got UEFI compatibility in QEMU is a step forware  
> > implemente
> > ia64-machine.
>
> Good point.  For OVMF we only support i386/x86-64 right now, but, we
> would like to add ia64 support.  I think the lack of ia64 support in
> QEMU is one of the big things holding this back.