On 3/11/19 1:57 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:28:01AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 02:20:06AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >>> On 3/9/19 1:48 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >>>> Repo: https://github.com/lersek/qemu.git >>>> Branch: edk2_build >>>> >>>> This series advances the roms/edk2 submodule to the "edk2-stable201903" >>>> release, and builds and captures platform firmware binaries from that >>>> release. At this point they are meant to be used by both end-users and >>>> by Igor's ACPI unit tests in qtest ("make check"). >>>> >>>> Previous discussion: >>>> >>>> [Qemu-devel] bundling edk2 platform firmware images with QEMU >>>> >>>> 80f0bae3-e79a-bb68-04c4-1c9c684d95b8@redhat.com">http://mid.mail-archive.com/80f0bae3-e79a-bb68-04c4-1c9c684d95b8@redhat.com >>>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg02601.html >>>> >>>> Note that the series was formatted with "--no-binary" (affecting patch >>>> #8), therefore it cannot be applied with "git-am". See the remote >>>> repo/branch reference near the top instead. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Laszlo >>>> >>>> Laszlo Ersek (10): >>>> roms: lift "edk2-funcs.sh" from "tests/uefi-test-tools/build.sh" >>>> roms/edk2-funcs.sh: require gcc-4.8+ for building i386 and x86_64 >>>> tests/uefi-test-tools/build.sh: work around TianoCore#1607 >>>> roms/edk2: advance to tag edk2-stable201903 >>>> roms/edk2-funcs.sh: add the qemu_edk2_get_thread_count() function >>>> roms/Makefile: replace the $(EFIROM) target with "edk2-basetools" >>>> roms: build edk2 firmware binaries and variable store templates >>>> pc-bios: add edk2 firmware binaries and variable store templates >>>> pc-bios: document the edk2 firmware images; add firmware descriptors >>>> Makefile: install the edk2 firmware images and their descriptors >>>> >>>> Makefile | 17 +- >>>> pc-bios/README | 11 + >>>> pc-bios/descriptors/50-edk2-i386-secure.json | 34 +++ >>>> pc-bios/descriptors/50-edk2-x86_64-secure.json | 35 +++ >>>> pc-bios/descriptors/60-edk2-aarch64.json | 31 +++ >>>> pc-bios/descriptors/60-edk2-arm.json | 31 +++ >>>> pc-bios/descriptors/60-edk2-i386.json | 33 +++ >>>> pc-bios/descriptors/60-edk2-x86_64.json | 34 +++ >>>> pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd | Bin 0 -> 67108864 bytes >>>> pc-bios/edk2-arm-code.fd | Bin 0 -> 67108864 bytes >>>> pc-bios/edk2-arm-vars.fd | Bin 0 -> 67108864 bytes >>> >>> GitHub moans here: >>> >>> remote: warning: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git >>> Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com. >>> remote: warning: See http://git.io/iEPt8g for more information. >>> remote: warning: File pc-bios/edk2-arm-vars.fd is 64.00 MB; this is >>> larger than GitHub's recommended maximum file size of 50.00 MB >>> remote: warning: File pc-bios/edk2-arm-code.fd is 64.00 MB; this is >>> larger than GitHub's recommended maximum file size of 50.00 MB >>> remote: warning: File pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd is 64.00 MB; this is >>> larger than GitHub's recommended maximum file size of 50.00 MB >> >> I wonder if this is a such that github isn't handling sparse files >> well, or if they just blindly do this check before they look at the >> actual required storage for the files. >> >> Regards, >> Daniel > > > Right. But really: can we keep these around compressed? > People's disk space isn't completely free either > (even though it's getting cheaper).
And not everybody has access to a decent Internet connection.
