Re: [Qemu-devel] Moving seabios-hppa git submodule to use a qemu.org mirror

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 20/02/2018 22:41, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> I just noticed that we seem to have acquired another git
>> submodule that isn't pointing to a qemu.org git url:
>>
>> [submodule "roms/seabios-hppa"]
>>        path = roms/seabios-hppa
>>        url = git://github.com/hdeller/seabios-hppa.git
> 
> And there's also
> 
> [submodule "roms/qemu-palcode"]
>         path = roms/qemu-palcode
>         url = git://github.com/rth7680/qemu-palcode.git
> 
> if that matters.

That already exists at https://github.com/qemu/qemu-palcode, it's just
not pointed to by .gitmodules.

> I don't mind either way and don't expect to change this u-boot source
> too much in the future so if you just copy it to the qemu repo without
> mirroring my repo that's fine as well. (If any change will be needed I
> can submit patches for it like for other QEMU parts but this should not
> be needed too frequently as this firmware is not developed any further
> by upstream so only changes may be bugfixes from QEMU contributors.) But
> I can't do that myself so I need help with that. All I could do is to
> provide my own repo and refer to that for all else I need your help.

Out of curiosity, why is it not upstream?

Paolo