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Because the toolchain to build the bios is non-free, which causes
the whole virtualbox is unable to put in main repository. So it may
be helpful to use a bios implementation which can be build by a free
toolchain.<br>
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persmule<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">在 2016年03月11日 19:50, Gianfranco
Costamagna 写道:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
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<pre wrap="">Coreboot is a project to reimplement firmware of computer, it is not a
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<pre wrap="">software running atop any operating system.
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the bios of virtualbox is completely open source, I'm not sure what is
your point here :)
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<pre wrap="">Coreboot is at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.coreboot.org/">https://www.coreboot.org/</a>, which has not been included
within debian.
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this seems to be a blocker then
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<pre wrap="">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.
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ok thanks for that, let me explain what I think about the issue (note:
the issue is older than my virtualbox adoption, so I might be wrong).
The virtualbox firmware/bios is completely open source, the problem here is
that the *compiler* (open watcom) is only "freeware" and not open source, and the open
source alternatives are not capable of building it, at least they weren't some months
ago, when I tried them.
If you have a different opinion, or progresses please let me know, I tried many times
to put it back to main, but I couldn't build anything :(
cheers,
G.
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