Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 7/8] target-alpha: use HTTPS git URL for palcode

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 4/11/18 12:24, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> When you clone the repository without previous commit history, 'git://'
> doesn't protect from man-in-the-middle attacks.  HTTPS is more secure
> since the client verifies the server certificate.
>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>
> Suggested-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>

> ---
>   pc-bios/README | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/pc-bios/README b/pc-bios/README
> index 8f98c07a74..20f7c33c24 100644
> --- a/pc-bios/README
> +++ b/pc-bios/README
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
>         1af4:1000 -> pxe-virtio.rom
>   
>   - The sources for the Alpha palcode image is available from:
> -  git://github.com/rth7680/qemu-palcode.git
> +  https://github.com/rth7680/qemu-palcode.git
>   
>   - The u-boot binary for e500 comes from the upstream denx u-boot project where
>     it was compiled using the qemu-ppce500 target.