On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:50:40PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 03/28/2011 01:24 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:02:45PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >>On 03/28/2011 12:42 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: > >>>On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Anthony Liguori<anth...@codemonkey.ws> > >>>wrote: > >>>>On 03/28/2011 04:03 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > >>>>>>Um, ok. Do I need to do anything about this? > >>>>>I'm also not sure this is too important. > >>>>It's GPL compliance so yes, it's very important. > >>>> > >>>>> Most of our firmware blobs come from svn repos which can't be > >>>>> submoduled. > >>>>The only firmware blob we're not currently including as a git submodule is > >>>>OpenBIOS. > >>>No, there's also OpenHack'Ware (ppc_rom.bin) and s390-zipl.rom. > >>Alex, what's the source of zipl? > >> > >>>> I believe the main reason is that different boards use different > >>>>commits so a single submodule is a bit challenge. We probably ought to > >>>>figure something out here though for the next release. > >>>> > >>>>Can anyone comment a bit more about OpenBIOS? > >>>> > >>>>BTW, OpenBIOS is already actively mirrored on git.qemu.org so all that's > >>>>needed is a patch that does a git submodule add with the appropriate > >>>>commit. > >>>That would be an improvement. Though building various OpenBIOS images > >>>depends on appropriate cross compilers. The situation is actually same > >>>as with SeaBIOS. > >>Can you do a git submodule add then? > >> > >>>>> And as long as we don't have a consistent policy about it, we can just > >>>>> as > >>>>>well stick with the README file. > >>>>We do have a consistent policy :-) We're just not enforcing it as tightly > >>>>as we should. > >>>> > >>>>Any binary we ship in the release tgz's should also have corresponding > >>>>source in a submodule. > >>>What about OpenHack'Ware (and PReP machine), should it be deleted? > >>Yes. I don't think the source for that is available, correct? I > >>don't think we have any other choice. > >> > >Debian still holds a copy of the code. > > I had thought that the actual binary was from Jocelyn and contains > patches that noone else has. In fact, the last commit is: > > commit 55aa45ddde3283cdd781326d001f7456bf02f684 > Author: j_mayer <j_mayer@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162> > Date: Mon Oct 1 06:44:33 2007 +0000 > > Quickly hack PowerPC BIOS able to boot on CDROM again. > > > People have worked recently to > >restore prep support that has been broken by various patches, it would > >be a pitty to remove it without before asking them. > > I'd be very happy to just submodule whatever sources Debian is using. >
I am not sure that it corresponds to the latest code, so it might have some issues, but at least it is something that is usable. The code is a vailable from: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openhackware/ Note that the .diff.gz contains a few patches needed to fix build issues. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net