Re: [PULL 0/6] Firmware/edk2 20231213 patches

From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Igor Mammedov" <imammedo@redhat.com>,
	"Ani Sinha" <anisinha@redhat.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	edk2-stable@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PULL 0/6] Firmware/edk2 20231213 patches
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:52:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA8H6kVNiSk6CEVun5KWQH-sqWxBKxZ9Rf7haQhZHEKiow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 at 14:01, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 11:50:12AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > The following changes since commit 9c74490bff6c8886a922008d0c9ce6cae70dd17e:
> >
> >   Update version for v8.2.0-rc3 release (2023-12-06 14:34:20 -0500)
> >
> > are available in the Git repository at:
> >
> >   https://gitlab.com/kraxel/qemu.git tags/firmware/edk2-20231213-pull-request
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to 704f7cad5105246822686f65765ab92045f71a3b:
> >
> >   tests/acpi: disallow tests/data/acpi/virt/SSDT.memhp changes (2023-12-13 11:23:11 +0100)
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > edk2: update to git snapshot (maybe for-8.2)
> >
> > This updates edk2 to git master as of today.  This picks up a patch
> > (merged only yesterday, that's why this last-minute PR) which allows to
> > work around a bug in shim, and enables that workaround in the qemu
> > firmware builds.
> >
> > This solves a real-world problem on arm hardware, walk over to
> > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1990 to see the details.
> >
> > Merging this firmware update that close to the 8.2 release clearly is
> > not without risks.  If I get a 'no', I'm not going to complain.
> >
> > That said I'm not aware of any bugs, and landing this in 8.2.0 would
> > make a bunch of folks hanging around in issue 1990 very happy.
> >
> > Alternative plan would be to merge this after the release, give it some
> > time for testing, and assuming everything goes well schedule a backport
> > for 8.2.1
>
> Ping.
>
> As expected this missed the 8.2 boat.  Now the devel tree is open again
> and people are back from xmas + new year vacations, can this be picked
> up for master and eventually 8.2-stable?

I can queue it, sure. Do we need to respin it to add cc: qemu-stable
tags, or can it be applied as-is ?

-- PMM