Re: why various devices are loading x86 roms on non-x86 architectures?

[Jiaxun Yang]

在 2024/1/31 10:28, Michael Tokarev 写道:
> Hi!
>
> qemu-system-aarch64 -device virtio-vga
>
> this one loads vgabios-virtio.bin.  Why?
> Does this bios work on aarch64 (or any other non-x86 arch)?
> Should there may be some conditional in this and similar places?
> The same is true for x86 pxe roms and other x86-only roms.

FYI on some systems they use x86emu (or biosemu) to run x86 only
OpROMs, this is at least true for u-boot (u-boot/drivers/bios_emulator),
PMON (MIPS/Loongson) and coreboot.

Thanks
- Jiaxun

> Thanks,
>
> /mjt

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