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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source inXEN/IA64

To: "Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>, <tgingold@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source inXEN/IA64 tree
From: "Zhang, Xing Z" <xing.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:46:08 +0800
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Thread-topic: [Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source inXEN/IA64 tree
>> > 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
>
Great, this make thing easy. 

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