On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/08/2012 09:52 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 03/07/2012 07:14 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >>>> Hey spot, >>>> >>>> On our weekly call today we discussed the always fun bit of binary >>>> blobs. ARM has the usual wireless and associated blobs most of which i >>>> think are already upstream (and already in Fedora). >>>> >>>> The bits that came up is uboot, MLO (X-Loader) [1] and what ever some >>>> of the other devices use such as the Raspberry Pi. In the first >>>> example the source code is available but forked from upstream, in the >>>> later it's a binary blob not that dissimilar presumably to a wifi >>>> firmware. For the binary blobs is the process the same as per wifi or >>>> any other binary? What about the MLO/uboot, is it enough to package >>>> the binaries and include details in COPYING/spec where the source code >>>> is? >>>> >>>> I'm sure there's some other cases I've not thought of that you might >>>> be aware of too. Can you advise of the best and easiest way for us to >>>> deal with these? >>> >>> We need to review each of the binary firmware items individually. Just >>> open review request tickets and block FE-Legal immediately. >>> >>> As for uboot, is there any good reason not to build from the available >>> source code? And MLO? I'm not sure we can consider a bootloader to be >>> firmware. That one might not be able to go into Fedora. >> >> Well we probably might well be able to but there's dozens of branches >> and forks etc for initiated every different SOC in their millions of >> different configurations, it's closer to a BIOS than a bootloader I >> believe, Linaro is in the process of adding grub2 support for ARM so >> grub will eventually run as a bootloader just like on x86. > > In that situation, will we still need the uboot/MLO stuff? Yes, I believe so. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
