From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53044) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dx8RT-00057M-G6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 05:15:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dx8RP-0007BH-LD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 05:15:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:42334) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dx8RP-0007A2-EI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 05:15:39 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E039C550B0 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 09:15:37 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:15:31 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20170927091531.GA12223@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" References: <20170926111757.3628-1-kraxel@redhat.com> <7f50b7bb-bbf7-7e0e-754a-234d4244fb72@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7f50b7bb-bbf7-7e0e-754a-234d4244fb72@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] qemu-firmware repo List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 09:19:22AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 26/09/2017 13:17, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > > Ok, we want for varios reasons separate the firmware from the main > > qemu repo. Here is my attempt to create such a repo. For starters > > only seabios has been added here. > > > > You can find the repo with currently three patches here: > > https://www.kraxel.org/cgit/qemu-firmware/ > > > > This "series" is only patch #2 of the repo. Havn't found a way to > > convince git-format-patch to include the initial commit of a repo. > > But patch #1 (the initial commit) only adds the seabios submodule, > > patch #3 adds the binary blobs, so patch #2 actually is the most > > interesting one. > > Are you planning to include only submodules, or also "QEMU-native" > firmware such as linuxboot, kvmvapic, s390-ccw, spapr-rtas, etc.? The submodules make sense to split out because distro vendors buld them independently of QEMU, and would rather not have them in the tarballs, so they have a clearer path to license compliance and legal export certification. The other bits of mention are all built normally as part of QEMU and not subject to these problems, so I don't see a benefit to splitting them out of QEMU. In fact putting those bits in the qemu-firmware repo would re-introduce the problem we're trying to solve because distros would then need to get linuxboox, kvmvapi etc from a tarball of qemu-firmware which would once again include all the bits they don't want to have. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|