Re: [coreboot] RFC: draft policy for accepting blob contributions to 3rdparty/blobs

2015-10-12 Thread Marc Jones
Hi all, Thanks for the comments. The conference discussion was very helpful. We'll work on this when I land in Denver and vet it posted asap. This should make it clear to vendors and easier on the community to review. Thanks Patrick, Stefan, Carl-Daniel, and everyone else at the conference for

[coreboot] RFC: draft policy for accepting blob contributions to 3rdparty/blobs

2015-10-11 Thread Patrick Georgi
Hi all, on the coreboot conference, we discussed a draft of a policy for inclusion of binaries into the 3rdparty/blobs repository. If binaries are required, we want them redistributable in 3rdparty/blobs to make users' lives easier, and make it possible to deal with them as good as it is

Re: [coreboot] RFC: draft policy for accepting blob contributions to 3rdparty/blobs

2015-10-11 Thread Alex G.
Hi all, I like that we're talking about a policy, but I really feel the policy, as written right now, is specific to ISA blobs, and some of the points do not map very well to non-ISA blobs. I've made some inline comments om that. A point about ISA blobs and their licensing, is that whatever