[Fedora-packaging] Distributing prebuilt bios roms with QEMU

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 03:26:24PM -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
> I really do wish we could come up with a clever way to build these on
> the native platforms, but I also understand how difficult that is, and I
> really don't want to stonewall on that.

On the BZ we discussed cross-compiling them.  It would require
approx. 2 extra packages per architecture, ie. a cross gcc and a cross
binutils (since it's firmware, no libc is required of course).

Rich.

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