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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppc: Add MacOS VGA driver ROM
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To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

  Hi,

> So, I believe qemu convention is to include the ROM source via a
> submodule - even though it won't typically be built from there and the
> prebuilt blob will be used instead.

Correct.  Also rules in roms/Makefile to build the thing, to document
the build process and to simplify the maintainer's job on updates.

cheers,
  Gerd