On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 09:24:34PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 6:09 PM Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On 28/06/2022 13.14, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 12:50:06PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > > [...] > > >>> Come on, this is just a test. We *really* don't care if an ISO > > >>> we use to test ACPI is using an exploitable version of grub. > > >> > > >> Wait, I thought we were only talking about tappy here? The ISO binaries > > >> should certainly *not* be bundled in the QEMU tarballs (they are too big > > >> already anyway, we should rather think of moving the firmware binaries > > >> out > > >> of the tarball instead). > > >> > > >> Thomas > > > > > > IIUC there are three things we are discussing > > > - biosbits source > > > - biosbits image > > > - tappy > > > > Oh well, I missed that part of the discussion so far since the corresponding > > patches did not make it to the mailing list ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > > > Anyway, that's just another indication that it might not be the right fit > > for inclusion into the QEMU source tree. So either download it similar to > > (or included in) the avocado tests, or maybe another solution would be to > > have a separate "qemu-ci" or "qemu-testing" repository for stuff like this > > ... ? > > Yes, I think we should have a separate repo for all testing related > stuff like blobs, guest images etc. Curently, some of them are in > personal github accounts which is not idea IMHo. > > Bits stuff can reside in the same place.
FYI, the reason much of this is intentionally NOT under the /qemu-project gitlab namespace is that we did not want to be responsible for distributing arbitrary binary blobs/images. That in turn makes the QEMU project responsible for license compliance, which is non-trivial todo correctly for much of this stuff. As such it is highly desirable to delegate both the hosting the binaries and source to the third party who builds it. I agree the use of personal github accounts is not nice, but it was the least worst solution identified. With 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 :|
