Dennis Gilmore said the following on 01/14/2010 11:25 AM Pacific Time: > On Thursday 14 January 2010 01:05:20 pm John Poelstra wrote: >> Dennis Gilmore said the following on 01/14/2010 10:46 AM Pacific Time: >>> On Thursday 14 January 2010 10:30:45 am Justin M. Forbes wrote: >>>> The Windows drivers required to install using kvm virtio have not been >>>> included in previous Fedora releases. This is a serious omission, in >>>> that virtio makes a noticeable performance difference for the guest. >>>> While it is understood that packaging up an ISO of binary drivers for >>>> Windows which koji cannot build is not acceptable for the fedora >>>> repositories, we have a problem in that we need drivers which are known >>>> to work with a given Fedora release. A possible solution is to have >>>> virt-install or virt-manager download the ISO if it is not already >>>> present on the host. The ISO is only around 4MB, so this shouldn't be >>>> too big of an issue. >>>> >>>> In order to make this work, and know that we are getting drivers that >>>> should work with Fedora, we really need a place to host the "officially >>>> supported" virtio-win drivers for Fedora. The drivers themselves are >>>> open source, GPL license applies. The only blocker from the real >>>> repositories is the fact that koji cannot build them. We are asking the >>>> board for approval and possibly a hosting location for these drivers so >>>> that they can be supported in the Fedora space. Would this be a >>>> possibility? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Justin >>> >>> This is not a board issue. If we can not build it in fedora then we can >>> not ship it period. you are free to host it on your fedorapeople space >>> and document how to get it. Best thing to do would be for the upstream >>> project to host the iso and make it available for download. >> >> Where do we explicitly tell people this this is our policy (setting >> aside how "obvious" it might be to some). If someone is asking for an >> exception to our stated policies as a project it is an issue that the >> board or FESCo needs to address and we owe a clear response to. >> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#No_inclusion_of_pre- > built_binaries_or_libraries > > so it doesn't say it has to be built in koji but we explicitly state that you > cant use pre built binaries except for bootstrapping. with an exception for > firmware. I don't think we can class windows drivers as firmware. > Is there any harm in being more explicit. > > Again its not a board issue it would be an issue for FESCo and the packaging > committee to resolve. > Please re-read my prior posts. I am not claiming it as a "board issue." Thanks, John _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
