Jordan Justen jljusten@gmail.com writes:
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Anthony Liguori anthony@codemonkey.ws wrote:
As I think more about it, I think forking edk2 is inevitable. We need a clean repo that doesn't include the proprietary binaries. I doubt upstream edk2 is willing to remove the binaries.
No, probably not unless a BSD licensed alternative was available. :)
But, in thinking about what might make sense for EDK II with git, one option that should be considered is breaking the top-level 'packages' into separate sub-modules. I had gone so far as to start pushing repos as sub-modules.
But, as the effort to convert EDK II to git has stalled (actually never even thought about leaving the ground), I abandoned that approach and went back to just mirroring one EDK II.
I could fairly easily re-enable mirror the sub-set of packages needed for OVMF. So, in that case, the FatBinPkg sub-module could easily be dropped from a tree.
But this can be quite simple using a combination of git-svn and a rewriting script. We did exactly this to pull out the VGABios from Bochs and remove the binaries associated with it. It's 100% automated and can be kept in sync via a script on qemu.org.
I would love to mirror the BaseTools as a sub-package without all the silly windows binaries... What script did you guys use?
We did this in git pre-history, now git has a fancy git-filter-branch command that makes it a breeze:
http://git-scm.com/book/ch6-4.html
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
-Jordan
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Anthony Liguori