From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44578 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4D7N-0006AI-Ck for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:08:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4D7L-0000rt-2T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:08:28 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:33872) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4D7K-0000rQ-Nf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:08:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:07:44 +1100 From: David Gibson Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 27/27] Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options Message-ID: <20110328140744.GL8428@yookeroo> References: <1301023292-24977-1-git-send-email-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> <1301023292-24977-28-git-send-email-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> <4D8CDEFD.9060907@codemonkey.ws> <20110328011922.GH8428@yookeroo> <78393F68-09E8-405D-AAAA-1D42338E032E@suse.de> <4D908A43.4010104@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D908A43.4010104@codemonkey.ws> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Alexander Graf , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl , paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org, Aurelien Jarno On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 08:16:51AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 03/28/2011 04:03 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > >>Um, ok. Do I need to do anything about this? > >I'm also not sure this is too important. > > It's GPL compliance so yes, it's very important. > > > Most of our firmware blobs come from svn repos which can't be submoduled. > > The only firmware blob we're not currently including as a git > submodule is OpenBIOS. I believe the main reason is that different > boards use different commits so a single submodule is a bit > challenge. We probably ought to figure something out here though > for the next release. Um.. where? I don't see these sources. > Can anyone comment a bit more about OpenBIOS? > > BTW, OpenBIOS is already actively mirrored on git.qemu.org so all > that's needed is a patch that does a git submodule add with the > appropriate commit. > > > And as long as we don't have a consistent policy about it, we can > > just as well stick with the README file. > > We do have a consistent policy :-) We're just not enforcing it as > tightly as we should. > > Any binary we ship in the release tgz's should also have > corresponding source in a submodule. So, again, what do I need to do? -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson