On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 10:31:17AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > > > - The qemu release dists get ever larger as we add more ROMS. > > > Adding > > > EFI ROM builds for i386, x86_64, and aarch64 will make the dists > > > larger still. > > > > I think these make sense. Should we tie this into the > > recent suggestion (by Gerd?) that we should put all the > > rom blobs into git submodules, and otherwise generally > > try to regularise our handling of blobs? > > It surely makes sense to consider both together, so we can work out a > reasonable workflow for firmware updates and distribution. > > I think it makes sense to create a separate project for the firmware > blobs. Move over the firmware binaries and source submodules to the > new project. This way updating both firmware sources and binaries can > be done with a single commit, like we handle this today, just in the > new firmware repo instead of the main qemu repo. > > When moving only the binaries to a separate git submodule and > continuing to have the sources as main qemu repo submodules firmware > updates become more complicated. > > > > 3. Change existing dist, and add a new one with bundled bits > > > > > > qemu-X.Y.Z.tar.bz2 - qemu source only > > > qemu-addons-X.Y.Z.tar.bz2 - bundled ROMS + libs > > With the scheme above it makes sense to have a qemu-firmware- > ${version}.tar.gz addon tarball. Maybe even two (one with the prebuilt > binaries and one with the sources). > > Question is what to do with the non-firmware submodules (pixman, dtc, > more?) then. I think they are not that big, so I doubt it is worth the > hassle to create two tarball versions. And license-wise it isn't a > issue too.
I've always wondered why we need to specialcase those modules at all. Personally I'd just remove them entirely and let people install the -dev packages on their distro just like they do for any other build prerequisite of QEMU. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|