Re: [PATCH] scripts/make-release: Go back to cloning all the EDK2 submodules

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 at 16:33, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> I think ideally we would not ship these rom blobs in our source
> tarball but instead provide them separately. Then we would definitely
> have no reason to ship a huge amount of EDK2 sourcecode that
> 99.9% of the users of the tarball don't want. But that's an
> idea that was floated at least three or four years ago now
> and we don't in practice have time or effort to try to do that.
> So the simple thing is to at least ship the right source...

To quantify "huge amount": a 10.0.0 tarball uncompresses to
911MB; of that, 445MB is roms/edk2. Another 156MB is roms/u-boot,
and 48MB is roms/u-boot-sam460ex. roms/ overall is 743MB.

So 80% of our source tarball release is ROM blob source, and
48% of our tarball is EDK2...

-- PMM