Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] bundle edk2 platform firmware with QEMU

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 02:20:06AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 3/9/19 1:48 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> > Repo:   https://github.com/lersek/qemu.git
> > Branch: edk2_build
> > 
> > This series advances the roms/edk2 submodule to the "edk2-stable201903"
> > release, and builds and captures platform firmware binaries from that
> > release. At this point they are meant to be used by both end-users and
> > by Igor's ACPI unit tests in qtest ("make check").
> > 
> > Previous discussion:
> > 
> >   [Qemu-devel] bundling edk2 platform firmware images with QEMU
> >   http://mid.mail-archive.com/address@hidden
> >   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg02601.html
> > 
> > Note that the series was formatted with "--no-binary" (affecting patch
> > #8), therefore it cannot be applied with "git-am". See the remote
> > repo/branch reference near the top instead.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Laszlo
> > 
> > Laszlo Ersek (10):
> >   roms: lift "edk2-funcs.sh" from "tests/uefi-test-tools/build.sh"
> >   roms/edk2-funcs.sh: require gcc-4.8+ for building i386 and x86_64
> >   tests/uefi-test-tools/build.sh: work around TianoCore#1607
> >   roms/edk2: advance to tag edk2-stable201903
> >   roms/edk2-funcs.sh: add the qemu_edk2_get_thread_count() function
> >   roms/Makefile: replace the $(EFIROM) target with "edk2-basetools"
> >   roms: build edk2 firmware binaries and variable store templates
> >   pc-bios: add edk2 firmware binaries and variable store templates
> >   pc-bios: document the edk2 firmware images; add firmware descriptors
> >   Makefile: install the edk2 firmware images and their descriptors
> > 
> >  Makefile                                       |  17 +-
> >  pc-bios/README                                 |  11 +
> >  pc-bios/descriptors/50-edk2-i386-secure.json   |  34 +++
> >  pc-bios/descriptors/50-edk2-x86_64-secure.json |  35 +++
> >  pc-bios/descriptors/60-edk2-aarch64.json       |  31 +++
> >  pc-bios/descriptors/60-edk2-arm.json           |  31 +++
> >  pc-bios/descriptors/60-edk2-i386.json          |  33 +++
> >  pc-bios/descriptors/60-edk2-x86_64.json        |  34 +++
> >  pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd                   | Bin 0 -> 67108864 bytes
> >  pc-bios/edk2-arm-code.fd                       | Bin 0 -> 67108864 bytes
> >  pc-bios/edk2-arm-vars.fd                       | Bin 0 -> 67108864 bytes
> 
> GitHub moans here:
> 
> remote: warning: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git
> Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com.
> remote: warning: See http://git.io/iEPt8g for more information.
> remote: warning: File pc-bios/edk2-arm-vars.fd is 64.00 MB; this is
> larger than GitHub's recommended maximum file size of 50.00 MB
> remote: warning: File pc-bios/edk2-arm-code.fd is 64.00 MB; this is
> larger than GitHub's recommended maximum file size of 50.00 MB
> remote: warning: File pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd is 64.00 MB; this is
> larger than GitHub's recommended maximum file size of 50.00 MB

I wonder if this is a such that github isn't handling sparse files
well, or if they just blindly do this check before they look at the
actual required storage for the files.

Regards,
Daniel
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