a list of small things to fix for qemu-kvm-0.12.3.1

a list of small things to fix for qemu-kvm-0.12.3.1

[Michael Tokarev]

..or for subsequent releases.

First of all, roms/{sea,vga}bios directories
are empty in qemu-kvm tarballs but they're
present in qemu tarball.  I think the sources
for the bioses should be restored.

While at it, the EXTERNAL_DEPENDENCIES file
should list actual git commit ID for the
seabios used, which is "two commits ahead
of 0.5.1 release".

And while at it, pc-bios/README should probably
be updated to reference to roms/* as well as
to the original sources for the binaries.  But
that's in qemu.

The following files should be removed when
releasing a new version:

 qemu/pc-bios/extboot.bin
   (this one slipped in from an old directory,
    it's now without first "qemu" component;
   And yes, 0.12.3 tarball has that file for
   some unknown reason).

 git-related files (.gitignore, .gitmodules
   and kvm/.gitignore) should be removed too
   when releasing things, IMHO.

Thanks!

/mjt

Re: a list of small things to fix for qemu-kvm-0.12.3.1

[Michael Tokarev]

Michael Tokarev wrote:
> ..or for subsequent releases.
> 
> First of all, roms/{sea,vga}bios directories
> are empty in qemu-kvm tarballs but they're
> present in qemu tarball.  I think the sources
> for the bioses should be restored.
> 
> While at it, the EXTERNAL_DEPENDENCIES file
> should list actual git commit ID for the
> seabios used, which is "two commits ahead
> of 0.5.1 release".
> 
> And while at it, pc-bios/README should probably
> be updated to reference to roms/* as well as
> to the original sources for the binaries.  But
> that's in qemu.
> 
> The following files should be removed when
> releasing a new version:
> 
>  qemu/pc-bios/extboot.bin
>    (this one slipped in from an old directory,
>     it's now without first "qemu" component;
>    And yes, 0.12.3 tarball has that file for
>    some unknown reason).
> 
>  git-related files (.gitignore, .gitmodules
>    and kvm/.gitignore) should be removed too
>    when releasing things, IMHO.

And probably other dot-files too:

  kvm/vgabios/.cvsignore
  tests/cris/.gdbinit

And I just realized that vgabios is in kvm/vgabios as
it were in 0.11 and before.  In upstream qemu it were
moved to roms/vgabios, but see the first item in this
email above... ;)

And while at it, what about kvm/extboot/ which contains
no useful files anymore, with everything moved to
pc-bios/optionroms/ ?

> Thanks!
> 
> /mjt