On 05/31/13 17:43, Anthony Liguori wrote: > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 08:04 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> >>> <soapbox> >>> >>> Fork OVMF, drop the fat module, and just add GPL code. It's an easily >>> solvable problem. >> >> Heh. Actually it doesn't need to be a fork. It's modular, and the FAT >> driver is just a single module. Which is actually included in *binary* >> form in the EDK2 repository, I believe, and its source code is >> elsewhere. >> >> We could happily make a GPL¹ or LGPL implementation of a FAT module and >> build our OVMF with that instead, and we wouldn't need to fork OVMF at >> all. > > So can't we have GPL virtio modules too? I don't think there's any > problem there except for the FAT module. I share your assessment. > I would propose more of a virtual fork. It could consist of a git repo with > the GPL modules + a submodule for edk2. Ideally, there would be no need > to actually fork edk2. Indeed. edk2 is extremely modular. But in order to get a useful firmware image ultimately, you need a FAT driver. > My assumption is that edk2 won't take GPL code. Correct, see eg. OvmfPkg/Contributions.txt. Laszlo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
