Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] qemu-firmware repo

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Wed, 2017-09-27 at 09:19 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 26/09/2017 13:17, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, we want for varios reasons separate the firmware from the main
> > qemu repo.  Here is my attempt to create such a repo.  For starters
> > only seabios has been added here.
> > 
> > You can find the repo with currently three patches here:
> >     https://www.kraxel.org/cgit/qemu-firmware/
> > 
> > This "series" is only patch #2 of the repo.  Havn't found a way to
> > convince git-format-patch to include the initial commit of a repo.
> > But patch #1 (the initial commit) only adds the seabios submodule,
> > patch #3 adds the binary blobs, so patch #2 actually is the most
> > interesting one.
> 
> Are you planning to include only submodules, or also "QEMU-native"
> firmware such as linuxboot, kvmvapic, s390-ccw, spapr-rtas, etc.?

The submodules are my priority.

I think it makes sense for all firmware where we have pre-built
binaries committed to the qemu repo, even if the source is in the qemu
repo too.  But maybe it's easier to keep those in qemu.  They tend to
be small and they are also not problematic license-wise.

cheers,
  Gerd