[oe] Odp.: what's the purpose of tarballs in the OE repo?

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

>    following up on a thread from the bitbake dev ML, what is the
> purpose of actual tarballs in the OE dev repository?

> ./recipes/firmwares/marvell-gspi-fw/9.70.3-p37.tar.gz
> ./recipes/firmwares/marvell-sdio-fw/9.70.3-p37.tar.gz

Marvell firmware for 8686 wifi/bt module. Available only in their intranet. Redistributable if license is also provided.

> ./recipes/sgalib/sgalib-0.1.0/sgalib-0.1.0.tar.gz

ST-Ericsson Nomadik 8815 platform stuff. Available only on CD added to board, required to build Xserver.

> ./recipes/qpealarmclock/qpealarmclockapplet-1.0.9/missing-files.tar.gz

This is for old software for platform which nearly no one uses now.

> ./recipes/zaurus-utils/files/gnu-tar.gz

ARM OABI tar required by Zaurus updater.