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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org,
	Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 27/27] Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:02:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D90CD45.8020704@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTini2BK1iZPJHQo27MvUL4HktOfAf0vUYawU-ETp@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/28/2011 12:42 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Anthony Liguori<anthony@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.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-28 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-25  3:21 [Qemu-devel] [0/27] Implement emulation of pSeries logical partitions (v5) David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/27] Clean up PowerPC SLB handling code David Gibson
2011-05-19  5:35   ` Andreas Färber
2011-05-19  5:39     ` David Gibson
     [not found]       ` <67F15A3F-5EE2-4825-8766-2CA2D6B3356B@web.de>
2011-05-19  6:45         ` David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/27] Allow qemu_devtree_setprop() to take arbitrary values David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/27] Add a hook to allow hypercalls to be emulated on PowerPC David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/27] Implement PowerPC slbmfee and slbmfev instructions David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/27] Implement missing parts of the logic for the POWER PURR David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/27] Correct ppc popcntb logic, implement popcntw and popcntd David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/27] Clean up slb_lookup() function David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/27] Parse SDR1 on mtspr instead of at translate time David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/27] Use "hash" more consistently in ppc mmu code David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/27] Better factor the ppc hash translation path David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/27] Support 1T segments on ppc David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/27] Add POWER7 support for ppc David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/27] Start implementing pSeries logical partition machine David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/27] Implement the bus structure for PAPR virtual IO David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/27] Virtual hash page table handling on pSeries machine David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/27] Implement hcall based RTAS for pSeries machines David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/27] Implement assorted pSeries hcalls and RTAS methods David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/27] Implement the PAPR (pSeries) virtualized interrupt controller (xics) David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 19/27] Add PAPR H_VIO_SIGNAL hypercall and infrastructure for VIO interrupts David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 20/27] Add (virtual) interrupt to PAPR virtual tty device David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 21/27] Implement TCE translation for sPAPR VIO David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 22/27] Implement sPAPR Virtual LAN (ibmveth) David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 23/27] Implement PAPR CRQ hypercalls David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 24/27] Implement PAPR virtual SCSI interface (ibmvscsi) David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 25/27] Add a PAPR TCE-bypass mechanism for the pSeries machine David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 26/27] Implement PAPR VPA functions for pSeries shared processor partitions David Gibson
2011-03-25  3:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 27/27] Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options David Gibson
2011-03-25 18:29   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-28  1:19     ` David Gibson
2011-03-28  9:03       ` Alexander Graf
2011-03-28 12:49         ` Avi Kivity
2011-03-28 12:53           ` Alexander Graf
2011-03-28 13:02             ` Avi Kivity
2011-03-28 13:08               ` Alexander Graf
2011-03-28 13:20                 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-28 13:16         ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-28 14:07           ` David Gibson
2011-03-28 17:42           ` Blue Swirl
2011-03-28 18:02             ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2011-03-28 18:24               ` Aurelien Jarno
2011-03-28 18:50                 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-28 19:52                   ` Aurelien Jarno
2011-03-29  9:09                     ` Alexander Graf
2011-03-29  9:07               ` Alexander Graf
2011-03-28 13:13       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-29  7:21         ` David Gibson
2011-03-28 10:30   ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2011-03-28 10:51     ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-28 10:51     ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-28 11:19       ` Alexander Graf
2011-03-28 11:22 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [0/27] Implement emulation of pSeries logical partitions (v5) Alexander Graf

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