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

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi,

>Coreboot is a project to reimplement firmware of computer, it is not a

>software running atop any operating system.


the bios of virtualbox is completely open source, I'm not sure what is
your point here :)
>Coreboot is at https://www.coreboot.org/, which has not been included
>within debian.


this seems to be a blocker then
>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.


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.