Ubuntu
vgabios package

  1. Lucid (10.04)
  2. Bug #513273
  3. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 513273

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

Yes, it has. Sorry about that.

Upstream QEMU recommends that we use the bundled vgabios.bin and bios.bin in their tarball.

However, these binary blobs are generated by GPLv2 code that is not part of the release tarball.

Per Ubuntu policy, we are not allowed to ship binary blobs without the associated source code.

For this reason, we're back to depending on the vgabios and seabios provided by those two packages.

If someone could help track down *what* particular difference in the Ubuntu packaged versions of vgabios and seabios is causing this error, I'm happy to review and upload a fix to one or both of those packages.

Thanks,
:-Dustin