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 -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
