Hi, > > Question is what to do with the non-firmware submodules (pixman, > > dtc, > > more?) then. I think they are not that big, so I doubt it is worth > > the > > hassle to create two tarball versions. And license-wise it isn't a > > issue too. > > I've always wondered why we need to specialcase those modules at all. > Personally I'd just remove them entirely and let people install the > -dev packages on their distro just like they do for any other build > prerequisite of QEMU.
Yes, we can probably do that now with pixman. A few years back when the submodule was added there was the problem that some distros shipped too old versions of pixman. Known offender: RHEL-5. But RHEL-5 is EOL meanwhile and I think qemu raised the minimum glib version to something newer than what RHEL-5 ships, so it qemu doesn't build on RHEL-5 anyway. Dunno about dtc. cheers, Gerd
