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Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD
From: |
Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD |
Date: |
Fri, 8 Mar 2013 00:03:15 +0800 |
On 7 March 2013 23:56, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> Peter Maydell wrote:
>> In general having blobs in our allegedly source tarball is pretty
>> ugly. Either it's a source release or it isn't. We can do a
>> release-of-blobs tarball too if we want, but it doesn't need
>> to be in the source tarball
>
> This is easily doable, just an update to scripts/make-release to spew
> two tarballs (one source, one blobs).
>
> We probably want update the build process to build the blobs by default
> (if the compilers needed are installed). Blueswirl started that already
> for sparc firmware I think.
Earlier in this thread it's been stated that this often produces
subtly broken blobs...
>> and it doesn't need to be in git
>> either IMHO.
>
> That one is a bit more tricky. The big advantage git has here is that
> the update of a blob is not different from other updates. It is just a
> pull request. Keeping source+binaries in sync is easy too: we can
> update submodule hash + blobs with a single git commit.
You could put the sources for the binary blobs in their own git
repo, and then have the blobs in that git repo rather than qemu
mainline.
-- PMM
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] problems with freeBSD, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] problems with freeBSD, Kevin O'Connor, 2013/03/06
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] problems with freeBSD, Laszlo Ersek, 2013/03/06
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] problems with freeBSD, Peter Stuge, 2013/03/06
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] problems with freeBSD, Doug Goldstein, 2013/03/07
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD, Peter Maydell, 2013/03/07
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD, Michael Tokarev, 2013/03/07
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD, Gerd Hoffmann, 2013/03/07
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD, Michael Tokarev, 2013/03/07
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD, Peter Maydell, 2013/03/07
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD, Gerd Hoffmann, 2013/03/07
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD, Aurelien Jarno, 2013/03/07
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] problems with freeBSD, Peter Stuge, 2013/03/07
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] problems with freeBSD, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/03/08
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD, Kevin O'Connor, 2013/03/08
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] problems with freeBSD, Peter Stuge, 2013/03/08
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] problems with freeBSD, David Woodhouse, 2013/03/07
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/03/08
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD, David Woodhouse, 2013/03/08
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD, Gerd Hoffmann, 2013/03/08
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [SeaBIOS] problems with freeBSD, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/03/08