Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: changing ROM bundling in tar dists for releases

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> > i.e. something like this:
> > 
> > https://www.kraxel.org/cgit/qemu-firmware/
> > 
> > (only seabios is there for now)
> 
> So presumably we'd want a 'make install' target there too, to place
> the
> various ROMS in the location QEMU expects ?

Yes.

Or place them in $prefix/share/qemu-firmware, and add that directory to
the qemu default search path.

> So non-distro users would need to download & install the ROMs,
> and then download, build & install QEMU ?

Yes.

> How would you view ROM install working for devs working against GIT ?
> 
> eg when we update a ROM in the firmware directory, how do devs know
> to
> update their firmware.  Would the qemu-firmware.git be a submodule of
> qemu.git, so that a 'make install' would deploy roms for devs ?

Not sure yet how to handle that best.  I'd tend to not make it a
submodule.  Typically there are no lockstep updates for qemu and
firmware, in most cases new firmware is only required if you want use a
new feature which needs firmware support.  So I think we don't need a
tight coupling between qemu and firmware.  Just updating the firmware
checkout now and then (or even simply using the distro builds) should
work in the vast majority of cases.

cheers,
  Gerd