Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] target-alpha: Emulate Alpha SX164.

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 April 2011 18:11, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/17/2011 10:03 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 17 April 2011 17:14, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>  pc-bios/palcode-sx164             |  Bin 0 -> 107781 bytes
>>
>> My personal opinion is that if we have the binary blob in qemu git
>> we should also have its corresponding source code.

> How does this differ from e.g. SeaBios?

I think that ought to follow the same rule: 'git clone' and
making a release tarball from a git repo should both either
(a) not ship a binary blob
or (b) include the sources which made up that binary blob

I know this isn't exactly where we are today; to some extent
I'm trying to see if anybody else agrees with this position...

> We don't really have any configury for cross-compilation of the
> bios bits.

Yes, this is a difficult problem (which also holds for test cases);
I'm not objecting to having the blobs in git and in tarballs, I
just want the sources too.

-- PMM