[coreboot] removal of svn:externals in v2's util/

[Stefan Reinauer]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 05.10.2009 14:56, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
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>> Peter Stuge wrote:
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>>>> another course of action (eg. moving the tools into the coreboot v2
>>>> repository, so everyone gets them),
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>>> No - please don't do that. We're trying to make them separate, not
>>> put them back in again.
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>> For the following utilities it does not make sense to keep them separate:
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>
> Sorry, -ENOPARSE. Are you saying they should not be separate from each
> other or they should not be separate from the v2 tree?
>   
The latter.
>> * nvramtool
>> * superiotool
>> * getpir
>> * mptable
>> * inteltool
>> * ectool
>> and maybe also for msrtool. We can put that in a separate repository,
>> too, if you prefer it to be not associated with coreboot directly.
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>>     
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> I think a common coreboot-utils repo would be great, but having them in
> a not-checked-out-by-default-with-v2 directory in the v2 repo is
> absolutely OK for me.
>   

But why? It's possible to just check out
svn://coreboot.org/repos/trunk/coreboot-v2/utils as it is possible to
check out svn://coreboot.org/repos/trunk/utils

Especially stuff like (our modified versions of) mptable and getpir make
no sense outside the scope of coreboot.

Stefan