Public bug reported: Binary package hint: qemu-kvm
<cjwatson> kirkland: ok, I'm lost now. What BIOS source are we actually using in kvm, where's its source, and why are there binary blobs in the qemu-kvm package? <kirkland> cjwatson: well, we have seabios in the archive now, but upstream qemu strongly recommended that we use the bios they've blessed and released in 0.12.3 <cjwatson> kirkland: we need to ship source for it <cjwatson> it's not OK to have sourceless binary blobs in main <kirkland> cjwatson: we runtime-depended on seabios for a while, but it caused a few bugs that we couldn't reproduce against upstream <kirkland> cjwatson: agreed, this is an oversight <cjwatson> IMO we should be building it too, and making sure we get the same output from doing so <kirkland> cjwatson: open a bug; i'm onsite at dell today/tomorrow, onsite at eucalyptus all of next week; i'll try to find some time <cjwatson> ok <kirkland> cjwatson: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/397472/ <cjwatson> yep, saw that <cjwatson> I understand the reasons, but we're wildly infringing our own policy here <cjwatson> not to mention infringing copyright on the BIOSes, if this is LGPLed (it is, isn't it?) <kirkland> cjwatson: i'm happy to revert that commit, and reopen https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/vgabios/+bug/513273 <ubottu> Ubuntu bug 513273 in qemu-kvm "kvm with -vga std is broken since karmic" [Low,Fix released] <cjwatson> I'm not asking for us to use vgabios specifically <kirkland> cjwatson: -vga std is low on my wishlist, fwiw <cjwatson> the separate source package or whatever <cjwatson> I'm entirely OK with it being shipped by qemu-kvm if that's considered appropriate, but not as binary blobs - we need to ship the matching source ** Affects: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Importance: High Status: New ** Affects: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid) Importance: High Status: New ** Also affects: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid) Milestone: None => ubuntu-10.04-beta-2 -- BIOS shipped as binary blobs without source https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541524 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to qemu-kvm in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
