Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 0/8] Add support for VM Generation ID

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 02/20/17 15:57, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:15:32 -0800
> ben@skyportsystems.com wrote:
> 
>> From: Ben Warren <ben@skyportsystems.com>
>>
>> This patch set adds support for passing a GUID to Windows guests.  It is a
>> re-implementation of previous patch sets written by Igor Mammedov et al, but
>> this time passing the GUID data as a fw_cfg blob.
>>
>> This patch set has dependencies on new guest functionality, in particular the
>> support for a new linker-loader command and the ability to write back data
>> to QEMU over a DMA link.  Work is in flight in both SeaBIOS and OVMF to support this.
>>
>> v7->v8:
>>     - Rebased to top of tree.
>>     - Fixed two small bugs in "write pointer" function
>>     - minor re-ordering of data in patches
>>     - Fixed unit test by adding delays/retries to reading RSDP table
> Michael,
> 
> series looks good for merging.
> Patch
>  [PATCH v8 7/8] tests: Add unit tests for the VM  Generation ID feature
> needs updated seabios blob to make 'make check' happy
> so we probably should merge/update seabios first
>   [PATCH v5 0/5] QEMU: Add capability to write back fw_cfg address to QEMU
> 
> CCing Gerd and Kevin.
> 

That's sort of a circular dependency, as Kevin generally prefers to
merge SeaBIOS patches once the underlying QEMU code has been committed :)

For a total ordering, all QEMU patches except v8 7/8 could be merged in
QEMU, then the v5 SeaBIOS patches could be merged, then Gerd could
refresh the bundled SeaBIOS binaries, then QEMU patch v8 7/8 could be
merged.

I'm not actually suggesting that though, given that the soft freeze is
in about a week.

Kevin, can you please make an exception this time and merge the SeaBIOS
patches ahead of the QEMU patches?

Thanks!
Laszlo