Re: [PATCH v2 edk2-platforms 00/20] Platform/Broadcom: Add Raspberry Pi 3 support

[Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 05:14:05PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> >> I can certainly upload binary releases for the required ATF files in my
> >> github clone of ATF, and then add links to that in the readme with the
> >> instructions on how to rebuild ATF.
> >>
> >> However, I'd rather wait to do that until there has been an official tagged
> >> new release for ATF (which would be 2.1 at this stage, since our changes
> >> have been applied after 2.0), as it'll look better for Pi users to see an
> >> initial ATF serial output that says "BL<#>: v2.1(release)" instead of the
> >> current "BL<#>: v2.0(release):v2.0-278-gc3859557"
> >>
> >> How about this then: If ATF produces a formal release before this proposal
> >> is integrated, I'll amend it to remove the ATF binary blobs and apply the
> >> suggestion above, with the Atf/ build/link data moved out of non-osi. But if
> >> they don't, I'll keep the proposal for ATF as is, and then submit a patch to
> >> remove the non-osi data and apply the above at a later date, once there has
> >> been a new ATF release.
> > 
> > Yeah, this certainly works for me.
> 
> I setup this Dockerfile [1] to have reproducible builds and avoid to
> store those binaries in the non-osi repository, what do you think about
> this approach?

Get off my lawn? :)

> [1] available here:
> https://gitlab.com/philmd/edk2-platforms/blob/raspi3-atf/Platform/RaspberryPi/RPi3/Arm-Tf/Dockerfile

I think it's a good thing to have, especially for something like the
Pi. I guess if that exists, we can trust people who prefer not to use
containers to be happy to follow the Readme, or grab binaries from
Pete's github?

/
    Leif