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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source in XEN/IA6

To: Tristan Gingold <tgingold@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source in XEN/IA64 tree
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:26:46 -0600
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On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 03:41 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> >    I agree, I think the added build tool dependencies and login to pull
> > the tiano code base would preclude us from putting it into the main
> > tree.  Instead of putting the binary in the xen build tree, perhaps
> > 'make install' could wget it from the efi-vfirmware.hg tree?  Something
> > like:
> > 
> > wget -O xenia64-gfw.bin 
> > http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/efi-vfirmware.hg?raw-file/tip/binaries/xenia64-gfw.bin
> 
> Should be OK but we'd better to specify a CS instead of tip (so that
> old versions of xen can get their correct gfw).

   Yes, you're right.  A specific changeset would probably make more
sense.  Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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