On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 08:25:24PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il lun 28 nov 2022, 18:04 Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> ha > scritto: > > > With my distro maintainer hat I would rather QEMU ship neither the > > ROM source, nor the ROM binaries. > > > > Annd since QEMU can finally cross compile its embedded firmware modules, > too, it is now easier for distros not to use any prebuilt binary. > > However some firmware sources are only available from QEMU's submodules. So > either we distribute those submodules as separate tarballs, or distros > would need to use the bundled tarball as well.
If the firmware doesn't exist as a standalone project, IMHO, it is fine to bundle their sources with QEMU. If they move off into a separate project some time in arbitrary future, they can be unbundled at that point. > Separately, I am not even sure what compiler is needed for the old > Macintosh ROMs... That we're not sure how to build some ROMS is exactly why distros have their build everything from source policy ! 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 :|
