On 08/07/17 16:40, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 7 August 2017 at 15:31, Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> wrote: >> As I recall there were issues with FAT driver licensing in edk2, >> but I've heard there were some changes in that regard. >> >> Is there any other reasons why we are not putting subj. >> in QEMU tree like we do with SeaBIOS and other roms? > > I suspect the primary answer is "nobody who's willing to > maintain, test and update the resulting binary blobs has > stepped forward to say they want to do so" :-) > > (I think that shipping them in the QEMU tree would be > nice but is principally a convenience for our direct > users, since distros are going to want to build their > own ROM blobs from source anyway.)
I agree that OVMF and ArmVirtQemu firmware binaries (and matching varstore templates, likely compressed) should be bundled with QEMU. There are no license-related reasons left that would prevent this. Please let us discuss this when Gerd returns from vacation. (CC'ing Gerd.) NB, upstream edk2 does not do releases. Similarly to iPXE -- edk2 is production quality at all times! /me ducks ;) Thanks Laszlo
