From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44694 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4H88-0001zY-KN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:25:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4H7i-0000xo-9n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:25:08 -0400 Received: from hall.aurel32.net ([88.191.126.93]:43422) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4H7i-0000uK-5R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:25:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:24:51 +0200 From: Aurelien Jarno Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 27/27] Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options Message-ID: <20110328182451.GB8929@hall.aurel32.net> 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> <4D90CD45.8020704@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D90CD45.8020704@codemonkey.ws> Sender: Aurelien Jarno List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf , Blue Swirl , paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org, David Gibson On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:02:45PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 03/28/2011 12:42 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:16 PM, 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. > >No, there's also OpenHack'Ware (ppc_rom.bin) and s390-zipl.rom. > > Alex, what's the source of zipl? > > >> 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. > >> > >>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. > >That would be an improvement. Though building various OpenBIOS images > >depends on appropriate cross compilers. The situation is actually same > >as with SeaBIOS. > > Can you do a git submodule add then? > > >>> 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. > >What about OpenHack'Ware (and PReP machine), should it be deleted? > > Yes. I don't think the source for that is available, correct? I > don't think we have any other choice. > Debian still holds a copy of the code. People have worked recently to restore prep support that has been broken by various patches, it would be a pitty to remove it without before asking them. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net