Re: [Qemu-devel] recursive submodules

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 01:30:06PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in order to build any OVMF platform firmware image from the submodule at
> "roms/edk2", the (recursive) OpenSSL submodule at
> "roms/edk2/CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl" needs to be initialized
> as well.
> 
> Am I right to think this would be the first recursive submodule in QEMU?
> How should I approach this? (I see we have a related script at
> "scripts/git-submodule.sh".)

The scripts/git-submodule.sh file is called automatically by "make"
in QEMU to activate any submodules that are required during the normal
build a QEMU developer does.

The ROM submodules are special though. AFAIK, these are never built as a
side effect of the QEMU build process, so never need to be initialized by
the git-submodule.sh script.  Developers always just use the pre-built
ROM files bundled in QEMU. The only people checking out the ROM submodules
are the maintainers who periodically build a new binary ROM.

So in this sense the fact that EDK has submodules shouldn't be a factor,
as we would not expect EDK to be built by regular QEMU developers

Regards,
Daniel
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