On 19 October 2017 at 15:31, Philipp Kern <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/19/2017 03:06 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Debian has much stricter policy wrt blobs (DFSG), >> and debian builds for more architectures (the firmware, >> if it is part of qemu-system-s390 package, needs to be >> built on all architectures where this binary package >> builts, or it needs to be a separate arch-all package). > > Note that the arch:all autobuilders are amd64. gcc-*-s390x-linux-gnu > exists in Debian, although only on i386 and amd64. I don't think there's > a policy today that precludes you from forcing users to build arch:all > on amd64 for technical reasons. > > Kind regards > Philipp Kern >
The s390x firmware in question, is built from source, on Ubuntu, on every src:qemu upload on the s390x architecture and shipped in an arch:s390x package. qemu-system-s390x requires to run on the s390x hardware, as it is effectively passthrough kvm only, and is not userspace emulated. (Does not work on non-s390x machines). Therefore src:qemu should build s390x specific firmware and ship in arch:s390x package as if it is an s390x-specific binary. Stuff about arch:all autobilders etc do not in practice cause any constraints here since this particular firmware is useless in a non _s390x.deb. There are no plans to make qemu-system-s390x able to perform userspace emulation on non-s390x architectures. -- Regards, Dimitri.
