Re: [PATCH 4/4] hvmloader: add knob for fixed VGABIOS date string

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 09:51 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 02.04.15 at 11:45, <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 13:28 +0000, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >> To allow reproducible builds of hvmloader introduce a make variable
> >> VGABIOS_REL_DATE="dd Mon yyyy" to provide a fixed date string. Without
> >> this change the hvmloader binary changes with every rebuild.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
> >> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> >> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> > 
> > It's not clear if vgabios should be maintained by us tools folks or if
> > it should have been taken under the hvmloader umbrella and maintained by
> > the hypervisor folks.
> 
> I'm not sure either - hvmloader is really code we grew and hence
> maintaining it together with its hypervisor side makes sense. For
> the various firmware blobs, otoh, I think they match more closely
> with the qemu/tools pattern.

OK, I think that makes sense.

We have specific maintainers for OVMF and SeaBIOS, I think the other
stuff (rombios and vgabios) is frozen/inactive enough (and specific to
qemu-trad) that we can muddle through via the tools/* umbrella
maintainership.

I think ipxe is only used with trad too, but I'm not sure if it is quite
so inactive or if someone ought to be keeping an eye on e.g. new
upstream versions. I think we can just continue as we have been there
too.

Ian.