From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.12.0-rc2 released Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:29:02 -0600 Message-ID: <4B279D2E.5070001@codemonkey.ws> References: <4B2684EC.2040504@redhat.com> <4B27529E.6050806@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dustin Kirkland , kvm-devel , qemu-devel@nongnu.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f182.google.com ([209.85.211.182]:36549 "EHLO mail-yw0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757989AbZLOO3H (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:29:07 -0500 Received: by ywh12 with SMTP id 12so4401822ywh.21 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:29:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B27529E.6050806@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Avi Kivity wrote: > On 12/14/2009 11:58 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote: >> >> I'm working on the packaging updates for Ubuntu Lucid, and I'm having >> trouble with the BIOS bits of qemu-kvm. >> >> It seems that a fair amount of the BIOS submodules are missing. >> >> The roms/ tree is basically empty. >> >> > > Well, binaries are shipped, but I guess you'd like to build from source. > > We have several options: > > - do nothing > - ship a generated SOURCES file which contains git URLs and commit > hashes, rely on the interested user to fetch and build. Also tag the > submodules appropriately. > - fetch the submodules and include them in the tarball I was thinking of taking this approach. As we integrate the build environments, this will allow a user to do a make and it will build all of the roms from source by default. Regards, Anthony Liguori