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From: Carsten Otte <carsteno@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] [S390] Add firmware code
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To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: waldi@debian.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> I am not fully comfortable introducing a binary firmware based on a
> patch posted on a website. I see two options:
> - Get your patch merged into ZIPL, so that we can build the firmware
>   directly from the ZIPL sources
> - Add the patch to the pc-bios/ directory
Looks like we'll have to sort out how to work with patches against 
s390-tools from the legal side. So far s390-tools is IBM-Code only and 
released as GPL, maybe it needs to go to sourceforge or alike in order 
be able to receive contributions. While we're at it, I think it would be 
good to have it as a blob in QEMU so that users can actually boot :-).