From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34214 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4CJW-0000lG-QT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:17:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4CJV-0000Dz-49 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:16:58 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f173.google.com ([209.85.213.173]:37539) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4CJV-0000Dt-1p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:16:57 -0400 Received: by yxk8 with SMTP id 8so1393931yxk.4 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:16:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D908A43.4010104@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:16:51 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 27/27] Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options 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> In-Reply-To: <78393F68-09E8-405D-AAAA-1D42338E032E@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl , paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org, Aurelien Jarno , David Gibson 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. 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. > 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. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Alex > >