From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59713 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4HWW-0004WJ-50 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:50:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4HWU-0007U5-DR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:50:43 -0400 Received: from mail-iy0-f173.google.com ([209.85.210.173]:59328) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4HWU-0007U1-96 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:50:42 -0400 Received: by iym10 with SMTP id 10so4059099iym.4 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D90D880.2080908@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:50:40 -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> <4D90CD45.8020704@codemonkey.ws> <20110328182451.GB8929@hall.aurel32.net> In-Reply-To: <20110328182451.GB8929@hall.aurel32.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Aurelien Jarno Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf , Blue Swirl , paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org, David Gibson On 03/28/2011 01:24 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:02:45PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> 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. >> > Debian still holds a copy of the code. I had thought that the actual binary was from Jocelyn and contains patches that noone else has. In fact, the last commit is: commit 55aa45ddde3283cdd781326d001f7456bf02f684 Author: j_mayer Date: Mon Oct 1 06:44:33 2007 +0000 Quickly hack PowerPC BIOS able to boot on CDROM again. > People have worked recently to > restore prep support that has been broken by various patches, it would > be a pitty to remove it without before asking them. I'd be very happy to just submodule whatever sources Debian is using. Regards, Anthony Liguori