From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49046 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4IUQ-0007jl-MX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:52:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4IUO-0001ra-6o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:52:38 -0400 Received: from hall.aurel32.net ([88.191.126.93]:49258) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4IUN-0001r0-VH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:52:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:52:32 +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: <20110328195232.GC8929@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> <20110328182451.GB8929@hall.aurel32.net> <4D90D880.2080908@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D90D880.2080908@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 01:50:40PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 03/28/2011 01:24 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >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. > > I had thought that the actual binary was from Jocelyn and contains > patches that noone else has. In fact, the last commit is: > > commit 55aa45ddde3283cdd781326d001f7456bf02f684 > Author: j_mayer > Date: Mon Oct 1 06:44:33 2007 +0000 > > Quickly hack PowerPC BIOS able to boot on CDROM again. > > > 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. > > I'd be very happy to just submodule whatever sources Debian is using. > I am not sure that it corresponds to the latest code, so it might have some issues, but at least it is something that is usable. The code is a vailable from: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openhackware/ Note that the .diff.gz contains a few patches needed to fix build issues. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net