[Bug 1822012] Re: powernv machine complains of missing skiboot files

[Bug 1822012] Re: powernv machine complains of missing skiboot files

[Thomas Huth]

This sounds like a bug in the packaging of Ubuntu, so I've moved it to
the Ubuntu tracker

** Project changed: qemu => qemu (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  powernv machine complains of missing skiboot files

Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi, I want to use the powernv machine from the qemu-system-ppcle
  application. However, when I specify this machine, qemu complains that
  it can't find the skiboot files.

  I noticed that skiboot is available for Ubuntu, but only for the
  PPC[64] hosts. Well, I just need skiboot files for qemu on amd64
  hosts.

  Hmm, looks like Debian has a package for these missing qemu files:

  https://packages.debian.org/sid/qemu-skiboot

  Could we promote these to Ubuntu repositories, and fix the qemu
  packages so that they automatically depend on the necessary BIOS
  packages? For example, openbios-ppc should also be installed when
  qemu-system-ppc[64[le]] are installed.

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