From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56407 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4GmC-0000z3-K0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:02:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4GmA-00034H-Rw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:02:52 -0400 Received: from mail-gy0-f173.google.com ([209.85.160.173]:49473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4GmA-00034C-N5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:02:50 -0400 Received: by gyg4 with SMTP id 4so1202029gyg.4 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D90CD45.8020704@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:02:45 -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> <4D908A43.4010104@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Blue Swirl Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf , paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org, Aurelien Jarno , David Gibson On 03/28/2011 12:42 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> 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. > No, there's also OpenHack'Ware (ppc_rom.bin) and s390-zipl.rom. Alex, what's the source of zipl? >> 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. > That would be an improvement. Though building various OpenBIOS images > depends on appropriate cross compilers. The situation is actually same > as with SeaBIOS. Can you do a git submodule add then? >>> 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. > What about OpenHack'Ware (and PReP machine), should it be deleted? Yes. I don't think the source for that is available, correct? I don't think we have any other choice. Regards, Anthony Liguori