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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source in XEN/IA6

To: tgingold@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source in XEN/IA64 tree
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:32:23 -0600
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On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 14:58 +0200, tgingold@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Quoting "Zhang, Xing Z" <xing.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > Hi Alex:
> >     The open source firmware works fine now. Shall we put it in
> > XEN/IA64 tree? So when people do clone, they also get firmware source. Then
> > we can add a script in Makefile to build binary
> > for people when they building source of XEN/IA64. This can make
> > XEN/IA64 pure open source and convenient to user.
> >
> > Any advice?
> I fear the sources are too big (almost the same size as Xen).
> But we may put the binary in the tree.

   I agree, I think the added build tool dependencies and login to pull
the tiano code base would preclude us from putting it into the main
tree.  Instead of putting the binary in the xen build tree, perhaps
'make install' could wget it from the efi-vfirmware.hg tree?  Something
like:

wget -O xenia64-gfw.bin 
http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/efi-vfirmware.hg?raw-file/tip/binaries/xenia64-gfw.bin

Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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