Re: [PATCH v2 for-8.0 0/5] scripts/make-release: Decrease size of the release tarballs

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

On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 08:25:24PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il lun 28 nov 2022, 18:04 Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> ha
> scritto:
> 
> > With my distro maintainer hat I would rather QEMU ship neither the
> > ROM source, nor the ROM binaries.
> >
> 
> Annd since QEMU can finally cross compile its embedded firmware modules,
> too, it is now easier for distros not to use any prebuilt binary.
> 
> However some firmware sources are only available from QEMU's submodules. So
> either we distribute those submodules as separate tarballs, or distros
> would need to use the bundled tarball as well.

If the firmware doesn't exist as a standalone project, IMHO, it is
fine to bundle their sources with QEMU. If they move off into a
separate project some time in arbitrary future, they can be unbundled
at that point.

> Separately, I am not even sure what compiler is needed for the old
> Macintosh ROMs...

That we're not sure how to build some ROMS is exactly why
distros have their build everything from source policy !

With regards,
Daniel
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