Some thoughts about firmware inclusion.

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:50:41PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> I would atleast like to see an exception for existing firmware images which 
> execute on the main CPU. Or are we going to take qemu out of the distro 
> until we have the toolchain in place to build the bios and vga-rom images 
> from source?

Thats not a very hard toolchain to build so I don't see it is a problem.

> Also where is the line between code and content? Levels for certain games 
> contain instructions which get interpreted by the game engine.

And if those are shipped in a source format with the game and a build tool
we should include them in that way at least in the srpm. If they were hand
coded in hex well that is genuinely the preferred form so no problem