31 May
2013
31 May
'13
7:08 a.m.
On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 08:04 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
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Fork OVMF, drop the fat module, and just add GPL code. It's an easily solvable problem.
Heh. Actually it doesn't need to be a fork. It's modular, and the FAT driver is just a single module. Which is actually included in *binary* form in the EDK2 repository, I believe, and its source code is elsewhere.
We could happily make a GPL¹ or LGPL implementation of a FAT module and build our OVMF with that instead, and we wouldn't need to fork OVMF at all.
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dwmw2
¹ If it's GPL, of course, then we mustn't include any *other* binary
blobs in our OVMF build. But the whole point in this conversation is
that we don't *want* to do that. So that's fine.