Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 10/1/21 12:34, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:>> Maybe we should also discuss
again whether we could decrease the size of the
>> release tarballs. Someone recently mentioned that we could e.g. remove the
>> edk2 sources from the tarballs - edk2 is licensed under a BSD-style license,
>> so we are not forced to ship its sources in our tarballs (unlike the other
>> firmwares which are licensed under GPL).
>>
>> Or maybe we could also finally move the firmware images completely into a
>> separate tarball instead?
> 
> The idea of a separate qemu-firmware repo is floating around for a
> while already but never really took off.
> 
> Now with hosting moved to gitlab we should be able to run automated
> firmware binary builds in CI and purge all firmware from the qemu git
> repo (both submodules and binaries) and add a script fetching those
> from gitlab instead.

We already have some firmware jobs which might be used as template:

.gitlab-ci.d/edk2.yml
.gitlab-ci.d/opensbi.yml