Bug#714277: grub-firmware-qemu: package description refers to Bochs BIOS

Colin Watson cjwatson at debian.org
Thu Jun 27 13:48:13 UTC 2013


Control: tag -1 pending

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 03:33:11PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> The package description mentiones that bochsbios would be used as standard
> qemu PC BIOS.
> This seems (at least in debian) to be no longer true, as seabios is used.
> In the future... even other "BIOSes" may be supported like OVMF (UEFI).
> 
> So why not using a neutral description/wording and write something like.
> "Replacement for other (BIOS/UEFI) firmwares like seabios, bochsbios, etc."
> Or something like that.

grub-firmware-qemu is pretty specifically BIOS right now, not UEFI.  If
that changes in the future then the description can be amended in the
future, but for now we shouldn't promise something we don't deliver.

However, I've adjusted the wording to stop claiming that bochsbios is
the default.  Thanks!

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]



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