On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 at 16:33, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > I think ideally we would not ship these rom blobs in our source > tarball but instead provide them separately. Then we would definitely > have no reason to ship a huge amount of EDK2 sourcecode that > 99.9% of the users of the tarball don't want. But that's an > idea that was floated at least three or four years ago now > and we don't in practice have time or effort to try to do that. > So the simple thing is to at least ship the right source...
To quantify "huge amount": a 10.0.0 tarball uncompresses to 911MB; of that, 445MB is roms/edk2. Another 156MB is roms/u-boot, and 48MB is roms/u-boot-sam460ex. roms/ overall is 743MB. So 80% of our source tarball release is ROM blob source, and 48% of our tarball is EDK2... -- PMM
