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

[Aron Griffis <aron@xxxxxx>]

Alex Williamson wrote:  [Sun Sep 16 2007, 11:25:24PM EDT]
>    I'm not sure we want to add a 2MB binary into the tree that the
> majority of users (x86) don't need.

Oh right.  I forget sometimes that we merge with x86 xen-unstable.hg
:-)

>    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?

Good point.  RHEL packages the Intel GFW as a binary blob, so I was
basing my thoughts on that, but clearly the situation is different.

> > 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,

Works for me, thanks

Aron

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