Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 50/58] pseries: Update SLOF firmware image

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 07:59:28AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 09/14/2011 07:28 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >On 14 September 2011 13:24, Alexander Graf<address@hidden>  wrote:
> >>Am 14.09.2011 um 13:01 schrieb Peter Maydell<address@hidden>:
> >>>I confess to not really understanding how we keep the git
> >>>submodules and the binary blobs in sync, but shouldn't there
> >>>be a reference in the commit message to the git commit hash
> >>>for the slof sources corresponding to this blob, and maybe
> >>>also an update to roms/SLOF here? (cf commit d67c3f2c for
> >>>example) ?
> >>
> >>Oh? Since I have absolutely no idea on git submodules, it might
> >>be helpful to add some description on how to do a blob update
> >>into README?
> >
> >Sounds like a good idea -- I think Anthony is the expert here.
> 
> You should be able to just checkout the desired version of the
> submodule (you may need to refetch from git.qemu.org), then build

Ah, yes, here's the point.  Updating git.qemu.org is not within my
power, so I can't myself construct a commit doing a submodule + binary
update in this fashion.

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