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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 09:19:22AM +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 make sense to split out because distro vendors buld them
independently of QEMU, and would rather not have them in the tarballs,
so they have a clearer path to license compliance and legal export
certification.

The other bits of mention are all built normally as part of QEMU and
not subject to these problems, so I don't see a benefit to splitting
them out of QEMU. In fact putting those bits in the qemu-firmware
repo would re-introduce the problem we're trying to solve because
distros would then need to get linuxboox, kvmvapi etc from a tarball
of qemu-firmware which would once again include all the bits they
don't want to have.


Regards,
Daniel
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