Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] Misc MIPS fulong2e improvements

[Aleksandar Markovic]

> From: BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Misc MIPS fulong2e improvements
>
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2019, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> >> From: BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden>
> >> v2 of http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-02/msg02477.html
> >> Addressed review comments and removed last patch (sending it
> >> separately) to make this series not depend on my ati-vga patch so it
> >> can be applied independently.
> >
> > I plan to add bin file (that you mentioned) used for Fulong 2E tests into 
> > our
> > tree (in pc-bios directory, with an appropriate comment in pc-bios/README).
> > Please let me know if you this I should not do that, of if I should perhaps 
> > > include
> > more files, or different files, etc.
>
> I think you cannot do that because distributing binary also requires to
> provide sources to comply with GPL. Therefore you should include source in
> roms and build binary from that like done for sam460ex for example (see:
> git log roms/u-boot-sam460ex). Problem is you have to figure out which
> sources and config was used to build that binary with the original
> lemote.com site mentioned in a comment in mips_fulong2e.c that used to
> host the source seemingly gone. So you probably will need to find a mirror
> and figure out how to build the pmon binary from that. The comment in
> source mentions that pmon is under BSD licence in which case it may be
> distributed without source but including random binaries may not be the
> best way even if it would be allowed by licence so building a firmware
> from source is the best way if possible.

OK, I will for now give up integrating the binary until all is clarified.

Thanks!
Aleksandar

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From: BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, March 4, 2019 3:27:27 PM
To: Aleksandar Markovic
Cc: address@hidden; Aurelien Jarno; Huacai Chen; address@hidden
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Misc MIPS fulong2e improvements

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
>> From: BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden>
>> v2 of http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-02/msg02477.html
>> Addressed review comments and removed last patch (sending it
>> separately) to make this series not depend on my ati-vga patch so it
>> can be applied independently.
>
> I plan to add bin file (that you mentioned) used for Fulong 2E tests into our
> tree (in pc-bios directory, with an appropriate comment in pc-bios/README).
> Please let me know if you this I should not do that, of if I should perhaps 
> include
> more files, or different files, etc.

I think you cannot do that because distributing binary also requires to
provide sources to comply with GPL. Therefore you should include source in
roms and build binary from that like done for sam460ex for example (see:
git log roms/u-boot-sam460ex). Problem is you have to figure out which
sources and config was used to build that binary with the original
lemote.com site mentioned in a comment in mips_fulong2e.c that used to
host the source seemingly gone. So you probably will need to find a mirror
and figure out how to build the pmon binary from that. The comment in
source mentions that pmon is under BSD licence in which case it may be
distributed without source but including random binaries may not be the
best way even if it would be allowed by licence so building a firmware
from source is the best way if possible.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan