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diff --git a/documentation/submodules.txt b/documentation/submodules.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 631e351303..0000000000 --- a/documentation/submodules.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -Use of git submodules in coreboot -================================= -coreboot uses git submodules to keep certain parts of the tree separate, -with two major use cases: - -First, we use a vendor tool by NVIDIA for systems based on their SoC -and since they publish it through git, we can just import it into our -tree using submodules. - -Second, lots of boards these days require binaries and we want to keep -them separate from coreboot proper to clearly delineate shiny Open Source -from ugly blobs. -Since we don't want to impose blobs on users who really don't need them, -that repository is only downloaded and checked out on explicit request. - -Handling submodules -------------------- -For the most part, submodules should be automatically checked out on the -first execution of the coreboot Makefile. - -To manually fetch all repositories (eg. when you want to prepare the tree -for archiving, or to use it without network access), run - - $ git submodule update --init --checkout - -This also checks out the binaries below `3rdparty/` - -Mirroring coreboot ------------------- -When running a coreboot mirror to checkout from, for full operation, you -should also mirror the blobs and nvidia-cbootimage repository, and place -them in the same directory as the coreboot repository mirror. - -That is, when residing in coreboot's repository, `cd ../blobs.git` -should move you to the blobs repository. - -With that, no matter what the URL of your coreboot repository is, the -git client (of a sufficiently new version) is able to pick up the other -repositories transparently. - -Minimum requirements --------------------- -git needs to be able to handle relative paths to submodule repositories, -and it needs to know about non-automatic submodules. - -For these features, we require git version 1.7.6.1 or newer. |