Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: changing ROM bundling in tar dists for releases

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 04:11:44PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > I think it makes sense to create a separate project for the firmware
> > blobs.  Move over the firmware binaries and source submodules to the
> > new project.  This way updating both firmware sources and binaries
> > can
> > be done with a single commit, like we handle this today, just in the
> > new firmware repo instead of the main qemu repo.
> 
> i.e. something like this:
> 
> https://www.kraxel.org/cgit/qemu-firmware/
> 
> (only seabios is there for now)

So presumably we'd want a 'make install' target there too, to place the
various ROMS in the location QEMU expects ?

So non-distro users would need to download & install the ROMs,
and then download, build & install QEMU ?

How would you view ROM install working for devs working against GIT ?

eg when we update a ROM in the firmware directory, how do devs know to
update their firmware. Would the qemu-firmware.git be a submodule of
qemu.git, so that a 'make install' would deploy roms for devs ?

Regards,
Daniel
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