Il 31/05/2013 19:06, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
David Woodhouse dwmw2@infradead.org writes:
On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 10:43 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
It's even more fundamental. OVMF as a whole (at least in it's usable form) is not Open Source.
The FAT module is required to make EDK2 usable, and yes, that's not Open Source. So in a sense you're right.
But we're talking here about *replacing* the FAT module with something that *is* open source. And the FAT module isn't a fundamental part of EDK2; it's just an optional module that happens to be bundled with the repository.
So *if* we replace the FAT module *and* that replacement was GPL, would there be any objects to having more GPL modules for things like virtio, ACPI, etc?
And would that be doable in the context of OVMF or would another project need to exist for this purpose?
I don't think it would be doable in TianoCore. I think it would end up either in distros, or in QEMU.
A separate question is whether OVMF makes more sense as part of TianoCore or rather as part of QEMU. With 75% of the free hypervisors now reunited under the same source repository, the balance is tilting...
Paolo