Re: [RFC 00/10] R300 QEMU device V2

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 06:14:27PM +0530, address@hidden wrote:
> From: Aaron Dominick <address@hidden>
> 
> I have removed the botched patches and have got the code working upto the 
> GART initialization.
> I am not sure how to implement the GART. I am guessing it should be an IOMMU 
> device but I think that is a bit much for an emulated card. 
> The earlier problem of display probing seems to be resolved by using an R300 
> bios I got from TechPowerUP's GPU database:
> 
>       https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/14509/14509
> I am NOT sure if we can distribute it in the QEMU source tree. If it
> does cause problems I can send a patch to remove it.

That site seems to be a repository of BIOS uploaded by arbitrary users,
with no information on what license terms might apply to the uploads.

We have to therefore assume the worst and treat the BIOS images on that
site as proprietary and not re-distributable, despite the fact that the
site itself is acting as a 3rd party distributor.

IOW, we can't have this in QEMU git I'm afraid, unless someone can find
a trustworthy vendor source for the original image with accompanying
license information.

Regards,
Daniel
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