Re: [Qemu-devel] Moving seabios-hppa git submodule to use a qemu.org mirror

[BALATON Zoltan]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > I don't mind either way and don't expect to change this u-boot source
> > too much in the future so if you just copy it to the qemu repo without
> > mirroring my repo that's fine as well. (If any change will be needed I
> > can submit patches for it like for other QEMU parts but this should not
> > be needed too frequently as this firmware is not developed any further
> > by upstream so only changes may be bugfixes from QEMU contributors.) But
> > I can't do that myself so I need help with that. All I could do is to
> > provide my own repo and refer to that for all else I need your help.
>
> Out of curiosity, why is it not upstream?

See this thread:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-02/msg05221.html
(and those that it refers to; this seems to be everyone's first question, 
maybe I should add a FAQ in the commit message :-) )

I don't know the details but I guess the hardware vendor who created this 
fork never bothered to upstream their changes and then u-boot has changed 
so it's now not even simple to do so any more so this u-boot variant is at 
a dead end and only needed for this board because guests running on it 
(some of which are closed source thus cannot be changed) use the services 
provided by this u-boot version.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan