Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source in XEN/IA64 tree

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 15:23 -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> 
> Is there a good reason to do this instead of dropping the binary in
> the repo?

   I'm not sure we want to add a 2MB binary into the tree that the
majority of users (x86) don't need.

>   Downloading files at "make install" time tends to be
> problematic for distributions.  Also it assumes that the installation
> machine has Internet access, xenbits.xensource.com is alive, and adds
> a dependency on yet another mercurial repo for installation.

   Would a distro really want to pull a binary blob out of mercurial for
a GFW, or would they want to package up efi-vfirmware.hg so they can
make modification and add bug fixes w/o being dependent on upstream?

> If you'd rather keep it out of the repo, maybe it could be downloaded
> via another make target, which would then be integrated to the
> top-level make default target.  That way a "make install" doesn't have
> further network dependencies.

   Another make target would be fine.  Seems like it would logically fit
somewhere under the tools make hierarchy.  Thanks,

        Alex

-- 
Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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