On 07/24/2012 02:26 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
On 07/24/2012 03:10 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:Hi all, QEMU release tarballs contain a handful of prebuilt roms that enable various features and emulation targets. We currently don't package any of these roms. For things like seabios, sgabios, vgabios, and ipxe, we can chuck out the prebuilt data and depend on natively built Fedora packages. However a handful of the roms require building on non-x86 (ppc, sparc32/64, s390). Being able to package the prebuilt roms would enable us to distribute working qemu-system-{ppc*,sparc*,s390*} Does this sound reasonable, and if so, what's the process for getting this approved? I'm looking at:I really do wish we could come up with a clever way to build these on the native platforms, but I also understand how difficult that is, and I really don't want to stonewall on that. Perhaps this merits a specific exception. How about something like this: === QEMU ROMS === Whenever possible, ROMS implementing BIOS or Firmware for QEMU system targets must be built from source on the intended architecture. However, in many situations, this is not practical or possible. As a special exception, prebuilt binary ROMS implementing BIOS or Firmware for QEMU system targets may be included in Fedora Packages, as long as the corresponding source code is also included in the Source RPM package. Thoughts?
Sounds reasonable enough to me, I could support that. -- rex -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
