Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 08:04 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 
> <soapbox>
> 
> Fork OVMF, drop the fat module, and just add GPL code.  It's an easily
> solvable problem.

Heh. Actually it doesn't need to be a fork. It's modular, and the FAT
driver is just a single module. Which is actually included in *binary*
form in the EDK2 repository, I believe, and its source code is
elsewhere.

We could happily make a GPL¹ or LGPL implementation of a FAT module and
build our OVMF with that instead, and we wouldn't need to fork OVMF at
all.

-- 
dwmw2

¹ If it's GPL, of course, then we mustn't include any *other* binary
blobs in our OVMF build. But the whole point in this conversation is
that we don't *want* to do that. So that's fine.

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