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From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] Clone and build Seabios by default
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:23:59 +0100
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On 09/09/2011 11:46, "Stefano Stabellini" <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
wrote:

>> But that means that if the sites hosting ipxe or qemu go down, people
>> can't build Xen.  Keeping a copy on xen.org removes external
>> dependencies we don't have any control over.
> 
> AKA single point of failure?

Better than multiple independent points of failure.

However, we already depend on the upstream ipxe site. Changing over to all
downloads from a single site under our control would be a separate issue and
patch, imo.

 -- Keir