Jordan Justen <jljusten@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> As I think more about it, I think forking edk2 is inevitable. We need a >> clean repo that doesn't include the proprietary binaries. I doubt >> upstream edk2 is willing to remove the binaries. > > No, probably not unless a BSD licensed alternative was available. :) > > But, in thinking about what might make sense for EDK II with git, one > option that should be considered is breaking the top-level 'packages' > into separate sub-modules. I had gone so far as to start pushing repos > as sub-modules. > > But, as the effort to convert EDK II to git has stalled (actually > never even thought about leaving the ground), I abandoned that > approach and went back to just mirroring one EDK II. > > I could fairly easily re-enable mirror the sub-set of packages needed > for OVMF. So, in that case, the FatBinPkg sub-module could easily be > dropped from a tree. > >> But this can be quite simple using a combination of git-svn and a >> rewriting script. We did exactly this to pull out the VGABios from >> Bochs and remove the binaries associated with it. It's 100% automated >> and can be kept in sync via a script on qemu.org. > > I would love to mirror the BaseTools as a sub-package without all the > silly windows binaries... What script did you guys use? We did this in git pre-history, now git has a fancy git-filter-branch command that makes it a breeze: http://git-scm.com/book/ch6-4.html Regards, Anthony Liguori > > -Jordan -- 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
