Avi Kivity wrote: > Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote: >> >>> We also need to upload the ia64 firmware for kvm, and make it >>> available for users use. At least, we need to provide the binary. >>> >> >> beware that actually providing the binary without sources might be a >> problem for some distributions (like debian and derivatives like >> ubuntu). >> >> most likely getting the sources and a makefile which could be used >> to build the binary and copy it to the qemu/pc-bios/ directory, at >> release time or when the sources had been changed and it needs to be >> rebuilt, and for convenience so it can be distributed with the >> release tar.gz will be preferred. >> >> for hints on how to get that look at the Makefiles in the bios or >> vgabios top level directories and the top level Makefile >> >> > > Note that we ship x86 binaries for two reasons: > - qemu does it that way, and we inherited it, before the need arose to > make modifications > - obscure tools are needed to build the binaries (iasl and dev86) > > Since ia64 doesn't have these issues (is that right?) then we can > probably do a source-only release.
Ia64 firmware build need edk tools(very big package), and very hard to setup the environment correclty. And it is not friendly to users :( Maybe binary is also needed. Xiantao >>> BTW, current ia64 binary has 2M size, is it OK to upload it to >>> kvm-source tree ? >>> >> >> if you are talking about the binary only, EFI BIOS from Intel, then >> it could be problematic (because of the free software guidelines of >> some distributions) and of course will need to have also some sort >> of README file clearly specifying that the license allows for >> re-distribution and can be used at least together with kvm (like the >> ELPIN vga bios was licensed for BOCHS) >> >> IMHO is probably better to use only the GPL version with sources and >> distribute that with kvm source packages and let the users or >> distributions >> to manage the distribution/installation of BLOBs otherwise as that >> keeps the lawyers from distracting us from the interesting technical >> issues. >> > > I agree, let's avoid binary-only components if possible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
