[OpenBIOS] [Qemu-devel] svn 6658 broke powerpc.

[Anthony Liguori]

Rob Landley wrote:
> On Sunday 22 March 2009 11:54:22 Blue Swirl wrote:
>   
>>>  So the bug was introduced (or at least triggered) by revision 452:
>>>
>>>   http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/openbios/changeset/452/openbios-devel
>>>
>>>  Anything in there look broken to you?
>>>       
>> Fixed in r481. I removed the PCI encode-unit/decode-unit methods for
>> non-bus devices, now get-instance-path works.
>>     
>
>
> Cool!
>
> Is there a procedure to ask how to queue this up for qemu 0.10.2? :)
>
> Rob
>
> (By the way: qemu is shipping a gpled bios binary without accompanying source 
> code.  I realize that the maintainer of said binary checked it in, but what 
> exactly is the rationale here?)
>   

IANAL, but from the FSF GPL FAQ, you just have to make sure the source 
code is available.  Since Blue Swirl is an Open BIOS maintainer, I think 
we can say with confidence that the openbios code will always be 
available.  If that situation changed for some reason, we'd have to 
mirror their code.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori