On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 10:56 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > It is not what I tried to say. > > Initially, ipxe package provided a big collection of rom files, one (or > sometimes several) file for every kind of NIC out there. Many of them. > Including, for example, 3com.rom, tg3.rom and e100.rom. > > From this lot, a few files were needed by qemu - e100.rom in this example, > but not tg3.rom or 3com.rom. So a new small package has been created, > ipxe-qemu, which contained a subset of all roms (e100.rom in this example). > But ipxe package itself stopped providing these roms entirely, - for e100 > cards it now needed to install ipxe-qemu, not ipxe. In this way, ipxe has > become incomplete (for real!) without ipxe-qemu. > > Later though, ipxe switched to a single ipxe.rom which handles ALL the > known NICs, That was the point where ipxe-qemu dependency has become > irrelevant, because ipxe itself has become whole again. > > This is what I mean - at least at some time, ipxe-qemu has been an integral > part of ipxe, and ipxe without ipxe-qemu were lacking several essential > roms. It doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
I cannot reenact what your describe above. In Debian ipxe_1.0.0+git-20120202.f6840ba-1_all.deb [1] contained the roms, though still not all in comparison to Ubutunu [2]. But with ipxe_1.0.0+git-20120202.f6840ba-2_all.deb ipxe-qemu was split off containting some of these roms and ipxe stripped of all roms [3]. Also Ubuntu dropped the roms from ipxe with ipxe_1.0.0+git-20131111.c3d1e78-2ubuntu2_all.deb [4] only keeping those in their ipxe-qemu package. I wasn't able to spot an ipxe.rom file in any of the previous packages from Debian or Ubuntu. Anyway, I am even more convinced I should keep the structure of binary packages and their dependencies as is. On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 11:18 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > > Actually, it would be great if ipxe-qemu dropped the roms into > > /usr/share/qemu/ > > directory instead of using /usr/lib/ipxe/qemu indirection. > > > > It'd simplify things in qemu quite a lot. Can we arrange this please? > > (It needs to be a coordinated upload, ipxe-qemu would Replaces: > > qemu-system-data > > before certain version, and since that version, qemu-system would require a > > more > > recent ipxe-qemu). > No, nothing like such complexity is required. Just drop the roms into > /usr/share/qemu instead of /usr/lib/ipxe and be done with that. Qemu > will work as before. It's just at some point I'll drop the ipxe lib > dir from qemu config, requiring ipxe-qemu >>thisver, that's all. Not a problem, however, I think I should keep some symlinks pointing from /usr/lib/ipxe/qemu/*.rom to /usr/share/qemu/*.rom to not confuse people expecting the roms in /usr/lib/ipxe/qemu. Or instead put symlinks into /usr/share/qemu/ pointing back to /usr/lib/ipxe/qemu/*.rom, will this still work for you? Best, Sven [1] http://snapshot.debian.org/package/ipxe/1.0.0%2Bgit-20120202.f6840ba-1/#ipxe_1.0.0:2b:git-20120202.f6840ba-1 [2] https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/ipxe/ipxe_1.0.0+git-20130710.936134e-0ubuntu1_all.deb [3] http://snapshot.debian.org/package/ipxe/1.0.0%2Bgit-20120202.f6840ba-2/#ipxe_1.0.0:2b:git-20120202.f6840ba-2 [4] https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/ipxe/ipxe_1.0.0+git-20131111.c3d1e78-2ubuntu2_all.deb -- GPG Fingerprint 3DF5 E8AA 43FC 9FDF D086 F195 ADF5 0EDA F8AD D585
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