Source: u-boot Severity: minor qemu powerpc machine emulation uses u-boot for booting, and this firmware image is currently missing. Please provide a package containing such firmware.
Here's how it is built within qemu sources (where u-boot is present as a submodule): u-boot.e500: $(MAKE) -C u-boot O=build.e500 qemu-ppce500_config $(MAKE) -C u-boot CROSS_COMPILE=$(powerpc_cross_prefix) \ O=build.e500 $(powerpc_cross_prefix)strip u-boot/build.e500/u-boot -o \ ../pc-bios/u-boot.e500 qemu expects this image to be found as /usr/share/qemu/u-boot.e500 (this is the directory where all other images are located). I dunno what's the name to suggest for this package, since u-boot-qemu is already taken and it provides different images, not directly used by qemu. Maybe qemu-uboot or something, dunno. There's a bug open in the Debian BTS about this, #756833 , - open for a long time already. The difference from this #756833 context is that now, powerpc cross-compiler is available and can be used for build-dependencies. I can build this firmware directly from the qemu sources (which includes roms/u-boot), and qemu already uses powerpc cross-gcc to build other things, but this is something to avoid in Debian. Thanks, /mjt