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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.12.0-rc2 released
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/14/2009 11:58 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
>>
>> I'm working on the packaging updates for Ubuntu Lucid, and I'm having
>> trouble with the BIOS bits of qemu-kvm.
>>
>> It seems that a fair amount of the BIOS submodules are missing.
>>
>> The roms/ tree is basically empty.
>>
>>    
>
> Well, binaries are shipped, but I guess you'd like to build from source.
>
> We have several options:
>
> - do nothing
> - ship a generated SOURCES file which contains git URLs and commit 
> hashes, rely on the interested user to fetch and build.  Also tag the 
> submodules appropriately.
> - fetch the submodules and include them in the tarball

I was thinking of taking this approach.

As we integrate the build environments, this will allow a user to do a 
make and it will build all of the roms from source by default.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori