From: BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Moving seabios-hppa git submodule to use a qemu.org mirror
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:12:42 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1802202302440.89213@zero.eik.bme.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58983aec-d7c4-c10d-e2b0-dfc6c0fe3fbf@redhat.com>
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> I don't mind either way and don't expect to change this u-boot source
>> too much in the future so if you just copy it to the qemu repo without
>> mirroring my repo that's fine as well. (If any change will be needed I
>> can submit patches for it like for other QEMU parts but this should not
>> be needed too frequently as this firmware is not developed any further
>> by upstream so only changes may be bugfixes from QEMU contributors.) But
>> I can't do that myself so I need help with that. All I could do is to
>> provide my own repo and refer to that for all else I need your help.
>
> Out of curiosity, why is it not upstream?
See this thread:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-02/msg05221.html
(and those that it refers to; this seems to be everyone's first question,
maybe I should add a FAQ in the commit message :-) )
I don't know the details but I guess the hardware vendor who created this
fork never bothered to upstream their changes and then u-boot has changed
so it's now not even simple to do so any more so this u-boot variant is at
a dead end and only needed for this board because guests running on it
(some of which are closed source thus cannot be changed) use the services
provided by this u-boot version.
Regards,
BALATON Zoltan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-20 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-20 18:43 [Qemu-devel] Moving seabios-hppa git submodule to use a qemu.org mirror Peter Maydell
2018-02-20 21:41 ` BALATON Zoltan
2018-02-20 21:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-20 22:12 ` BALATON Zoltan [this message]
2018-02-20 22:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-21 5:27 ` Jeff Cody
2018-03-19 13:19 ` Peter Maydell
2018-03-19 13:32 ` BALATON Zoltan
2018-03-19 19:15 ` Jeff Cody
2018-03-19 21:36 ` BALATON Zoltan
2018-03-19 19:06 ` Jeff Cody
2018-03-20 17:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-03-21 15:09 ` Jeff Cody
2018-03-21 15:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-03-21 15:34 ` Jeff Cody
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