[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] write option roms in pc-bios/

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 01/08/2010 01:31 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/07/2010 09:03 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> This will wreak havoc on the tree since these are built by default and
>> they are replacing files in revision control.
>
> ... the next question is why are they (linuxboot.bin and 
> multiboot.bin) in revision control since they do not require any 
> strange tool to be built.

If you're just thinking about x86 and kvm, sure, but when you consider a 
default build creates tcg targets for arm, sparc, mips, etc, and that 
they all need firmware, it's extremely unlikely that any given user has 
all of the cross compilers available to build all of the roms.

Yes, we could and should be smarter about building roms when we can and 
making sure we install and use those whenever possible.  We still need 
to ship roms though for the foreseeable future.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori



> Paolo