[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#817260: Wish: Replace virtualbox's guest BIOS with Coreboot

[Persmule]

Hi.

Coreboot is a project to reimplement firmware of computer, it is not a
software running atop any operating system.

Coreboot is at https://www.coreboot.org/, which has not been included
within debian.

And I have never been working on virtualbox. Now I am only a Coreboot
user and potential developer. I just want to point out the possibility
about that.

Thanks.

在 2016年03月11日 18:22, Gianfranco Costamagna 写道:
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> Hi, Tianming, can you please point me to the coreboot package in debian unstable?
> I have difficulties in finding it, and a patch for building it would be apppreciated.
>
> cheers,
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> G.
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> Il Mercoledì 9 Marzo 2016 15:39, Tianming Xie <persmule at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> Package: virtualbox
> Severity: wishlist
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> Dear Maintainer,
>
> As far as I know, the reason why virtualbox is moved to contrib is the
> toolchain to build the guest BIOS is non-free. The source code of the BIOS
> itself is viewable. So is it possible to reimplement the guest bios atop
> Coreboot, which already has a completely free toolchain?
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> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=zh_CN.utf8, LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)