Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 27/27] Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options

[Anthony Liguori]

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.  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.

>   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.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Alex