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

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

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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,

G.





Il Mercoledì 9 Marzo 2016 15:39, Tianming Xie <persmule at gmail.com> ha scritto:
Package: virtualbox
Severity: wishlist

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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