But In that case it’s impossible to emulate or even compile Windows for Dec Alpha.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1473451 Title: Please support the native bios format for dec alpha Status in QEMU: Won't Fix Bug description: Currently qemu-system-alpha -bios parameter takes an ELF image. However HP maintains firmware updates for those systems. Some example rom files can be found here ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/alphaserver/firmware/current_platforms/v7.3_release/DS20_DS20e/ It might allow things like using the SRM firmware. The ARC(nt) firmware would allow to build and test windows applications for that platforms without having the relevant hardware To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1473451/+subscriptions
