Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> > So while I'm all for making things a little more independent,
> > let's not do it in a way that makes life difficult for downstreams.
> > There are more there than just a couple of big distro builders.
> 
> I think this is fine. Firmware blobs aren't needed to build QEMU, only
> to run the system emulator.

Yep.  But doing firmware builds outside gitlab should be easy, so we
should probably keep the core logic in a script / Makefile / whatever
(simliar to todays roms/Makefile), then simply invoke that from gitlab
ci yaml files.

take care,
  Gerd