Re: [Qemu-devel] [OFFTOPIC PATCH for-4.1 v3 00/12] bundle edk2 platform firmware with QEMU

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 08:29, Michal Privoznik <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 3/21/19 6:03 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > (We're probably going to get rid of in-tree build support in 4.1.)
>
> Sorry for hijicking the thread, but can you point in me the discussion
> on the list where was this discussed please? I'm unable to find it. As a
> person who does in tree builds only I'm interested to learn more.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg01949.html
and subthread.

The short reasoning is that there's nothing you can do with
an in-tree build that you can't do with an out-of-tree build
(whereas the reverse is not true), and maintaining both
mechanisms leads to lots of bugs where we accidentally break
one of them because the developers are only using the other
kind. So in-tree builds are more pain to support than they're
worth.

thanks
-- PMM