On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:02:45PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 03/28/2011 12:42 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Anthony Liguori<anth...@codemonkey.ws> > >wrote: > >>On 03/28/2011 04:03 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > >>>>Um, ok. Do I need to do anything about this? > >>>I'm also not sure this is too important. > >>It's GPL compliance so yes, it's very important. > >> > >>> Most of our firmware blobs come from svn repos which can't be submoduled. > >>The only firmware blob we're not currently including as a git submodule is > >>OpenBIOS. > >No, there's also OpenHack'Ware (ppc_rom.bin) and s390-zipl.rom. > > Alex, what's the source of zipl? > > >> I believe the main reason is that different boards use different > >>commits so a single submodule is a bit challenge. We probably ought to > >>figure something out here though for the next release. > >> > >>Can anyone comment a bit more about OpenBIOS? > >> > >>BTW, OpenBIOS is already actively mirrored on git.qemu.org so all that's > >>needed is a patch that does a git submodule add with the appropriate commit. > >That would be an improvement. Though building various OpenBIOS images > >depends on appropriate cross compilers. The situation is actually same > >as with SeaBIOS. > > Can you do a git submodule add then? > > >>> And as long as we don't have a consistent policy about it, we can just as > >>>well stick with the README file. > >>We do have a consistent policy :-) We're just not enforcing it as tightly > >>as we should. > >> > >>Any binary we ship in the release tgz's should also have corresponding > >>source in a submodule. > >What about OpenHack'Ware (and PReP machine), should it be deleted? > > Yes. I don't think the source for that is available, correct? I > don't think we have any other choice. >
Debian still holds a copy of the code. People have worked recently to restore prep support that has been broken by various patches, it would be a pitty to remove it without before asking them. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
