Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] Clone and build Seabios by default

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Stefano Stabellini
> <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 13:47 -0400, stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> wrote:
> >> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >
> >> > diff -r ef27b472d4f3 Config.mk
> >> > --- a/Config.mk   Thu Sep 08 17:19:12 2011 +0000
> >> > +++ b/Config.mk   Thu Sep 08 17:29:50 2011 +0000
> >> > @@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ endif
> >> > Â# Only available through the git protocol at the moment
> >> > ÂQEMU_UPSTREAM_URL ?= 
> >> > git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/qemu-dm.git
> >> > ÂQEMU_UPSTREAM_TAG ?= origin/xen-stable-0.15
> >> > +SEABIOS_UPSTREAM_URL=git://git.qemu.org/seabios.git
> >> > +SEABIOS_UPSTREAM_TAG ?= 7fc039e9c262b4199fab497f3e12f4e425c37560
> >>
> >> I guess we should have a default tree on xenbits for this?
> >
> > I am not sure it is a good idea, after all we don't plan to fork it,
> > right?
> > It is the same thing as with ipxe: we just use the official repo.
> 
> But that means that if the sites hosting ipxe or qemu go down, people
> can't build Xen.  Keeping a copy on xen.org removes external
> dependencies we don't have any control over.

AKA single point of failure?

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