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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/12] EDK2 Firmware roms
From: |
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/12] EDK2 Firmware roms |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:32:58 +0100 |
Le mer. 20 mars 2019 21:05, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> a
écrit :
> Le mer. 20 mars 2019 20:43, Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
>> On 03/20/19 19:59, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> > (+Daniel and MST)
>> >
>> > On 03/20/19 16:58, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>
>> >> A question: does this absolutely have to be 'xz' and not bzip ?
>> >
>> > I think bzip2 should work fine too:
>> >
>> > 1146804 edk2-aarch64-code.fd.xz | 1177603
>> edk2-aarch64-code.fd.bz2
>> > 1147852 edk2-arm-code.fd.xz | 1173662 edk2-arm-code.fd.bz2
>> > 10008 edk2-arm-vars.fd.xz | 263 edk2-arm-vars.fd.bz2
>> > 1674764 edk2-i386-code.fd.xz | 1688659 edk2-i386-code.fd.bz2
>> > 1870024 edk2-i386-secure-code.fd.xz | 1881979
>> edk2-i386-secure-code.fd.bz2
>> > 320 edk2-i386-vars.fd.xz | 190 edk2-i386-vars.fd.bz2
>> > 1655276 edk2-x86_64-code.fd.xz | 1669280
>> edk2-x86_64-code.fd.bz2
>> > 1889024 edk2-x86_64-secure-code.fd.xz | 1901210
>> edk2-x86_64-secure-code.fd.bz2
>> > 9394072 total | 9492846 total
>> >
>> > ~1% size increase in total.
>> >
>> > If we switch to bzip2, should I hurry for 4.0, or take my time in the
>> next development cycle?
>>
>> An alternative to rebasing / reworking the series in-place (for
>> xz-->bz2) and to missing the 4.0 bus consequently, would be to merge the
>> PULL req as is, and for me to submit an incremental update, for the
>> xz-->bz2 replacement. I think that would qualify as a bugfix, and be
>> eligible for the hard freeze too.
>>
>
> A simple fix could be ./configure checks for xz and if not installed
> kindly ask for installation, or as a warning then if unable to install
> (user without root access) simply doesn't uncompress.
>
./configure detect no xz and select --disable-blobs?
>> Thanks
>> Laszlo
>>
>>
- [Qemu-devel] [PULL 02/12] roms/edk2-funcs.sh: require gcc-4.8+ for building i386 and x86_64, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PULL 02/12] roms/edk2-funcs.sh: require gcc-4.8+ for building i386 and x86_64, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2019/03/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/12] EDK2 Firmware roms, Peter Maydell, 2019/03/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/12] EDK2 Firmware roms, Peter Maydell, 2019/03/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/12] EDK2 Firmware roms, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2019/03/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/12] EDK2 Firmware roms, Peter Maydell, 2019/03/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/12] EDK2 Firmware roms, Laszlo Ersek, 2019/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/12] EDK2 Firmware roms, Peter Maydell, 2019/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/12] EDK2 Firmware roms, Laszlo Ersek, 2019/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/12] EDK2 Firmware roms, Laszlo Ersek, 2019/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/12] EDK2 Firmware roms, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2019/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/12] EDK2 Firmware roms,
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/12] EDK2 Firmware roms, Peter Maydell, 2019/03/21