Re: [Qemu-devel] newer bios in qemu

[Fabrice Bellard]

Jens Arm wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have see, that qemu uses a quit old bios.bin from bochs.
> Is it possible to use a newer one? I have tried, but get errors.
>
>
> The is a other very very slow emu called faumachine.org so for fun I have tried 
> there bios, because
> it is a bios where you can change things at boot like in real world.
> But if I try to use it I get a SegFault :(
> Any ideas?

Hi,

I am relunctant to upgrade the BIOS because it is likely to introduce 
regressions. I do it only when problems related to it are signaled.

Regarding configuration in the BIOS, it does not seem very useful yet, 
and the FAUmachine BIOS may use FAUmachine specific configuration I/Os.

Fabrice.