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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 50/58] pseries: Update SLOF firmware image
From: |
David Gibson |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 50/58] pseries: Update SLOF firmware image |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:21:56 +1000 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 08:39:51AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> Am 27.09.2011 um 03:01 schrieb David Gibson <address@hidden>:
>
> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:45:20PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> On 09/20/2011 05:40 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> >>> Ah, yes, here's the point. Updating git.qemu.org is not within my
> >>> power, so I can't myself construct a commit doing a submodule + binary
> >>> update in this fashion.
> >>
> >> Sure you can. A submodule checkout is just like any other git
> >> commit. A commit doing a submodule update is just saying "from now
> >> on, submodule roms/SLOF is attached to commit 12ab34cd".
> >>
> >> First of all, you should configure your qemu tree so that it uses
> >> your official upstream repository instead of git.qemu.org's SLOF
> >> mirror:
> >>
> >> git config submodule.roms/SLOF.url git://github.com/dgibson/SLOF.git
> >> rm -rf roms/SLOF
> >> git submodule update roms/SLOF
> >>
> >> Producing a valid patch is as simple as this:
> >>
> >> cd roms/SLOF
> >> git fetch origin # if needed
> >> git checkout origin/master
> >> cd ..
> >> cp /path/to/SLOF.bin pc-bios/
> >> git commit pc-bios roms -m'pseries: Update SLOF firmware image'
> >>
> >> Then, whoever updates git.qemu.org indeed has to pull manually from
> >> https://github.com/dgibson/SLOF to ensure that git.qemu.org's SLOF
> >> mirror does include the new commit. But that doesn't prevent you
> >> from *submitting* the patch.
> >>
> >> BTW, the above configuration steps should probably be done by
> >> everybody who's working with the pseries machine, so that they will
> >> have easy access to upstream SLOF bugfixes.
> >
> > Thanks for the recipe.
> >
> > Alex, do you want me to submit a replacement SLOF update patch which
> > does this, or will you fix up the existing one in your ppc queue?
>
> I would very much appreciate if you did it :)
Done.
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