Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/4] Update makefile to build roms

[Jamie Lokier]

Paul Brook wrote:
> > In general, QEMU does not support anything but lock-step versioning with
> > it's ROMs.  There is no ABI between QEMU and the BIOS.
> 
> This is obviously false for things like PXE roms.
> 
> > Having multiple packages therefore makes little sense because they can
> > never be independent of each other.
> 
> Depends how your build system is setup.  IMHO building a ROM and
> building qemu itself are different tasks that effectively need
> separate packages anyway.

And when built for a distribution, perhaps QEMU, BIOS and PXE should
be separate packages anyway, with QEMU depending on the others (or
perhaps "recommending").

-- Jamie