Re: [meta-virtualization][PATCH v3 00/22] Xen: python3, wic, 4.12.2, tools separation

["Bruce Ashfield" <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>]

In message: [meta-virtualization][PATCH v3 00/22] Xen: python3, wic, 4.12.2, tools separation
on 25/02/2020 christopher.w.clark@gmail.com wrote:

> From: Christopher Clark <christopher.w.clark@gmail.com>
> 
> Update the Xen recipes for python3 compatibility and separate recipes
> for the hypervisor, the tools and legacy python2 scripts. Refresh ipxe
> and seabios.
> 
> Changes since v2 of this series:
> - update the deploy tasks to ensure that the hypervisor and tools binaries
>   are staged (addtask after do_populate_sysroot) prior to being deployed
> - set executable permissions on the installed python2 scripts

v3 is merged. Thanks for the updates!

Bruce

> 
> Upgrade Xen to latest point release of the same version and switch to
> git branch tracking for easier incorporation of security fixes. Multiple
> recipe fixes.
> 
> Separate recipes for the hypervisor and tools enables targetting
> different architectures and build configurations (ref: multiconfig) and
> improvements to build efficiency downstream.
> 
> Add wic support for building bootable images with Xen and dom0.
> 
> Remove the stubs task by satisfying the 32-bit dependencies when
> necessary using multilib.
> 
> This change renames many of the packages produced: most packages that had a
> "xen-" prefix now have a "xen-tools-" prefix instead, indicating the recipe
> that now produces them, so dependent recipes will need to update package
> references:
>     eg. xen-tools-hvmloader replaces xen-hvmloader
>     eg. xen-tools replaces xen-base
> and recipe DEPENDS statements:
>     eg. DEPENDS="xen" changes to DEPENDS="xen-tools"
> A temporary append is provided for qemu to handle the renaming while its
> recipe is updated in openembedded-core.
> 
> Christopher Clark (22):
>   seabios: upgrade to version 1.13.0 at official URI and switch to
>     python3
>   ipxe: fix build with uprev to the latest git revision
>   linux-yocto/xen.cfg: update Xen KConfig fragment entries
>   xen: pass compiler flags via Xen-provided variables
>   xen: upgrade to 4.12.2
>   wic: add support for bootable pcbios partition with Xen hypervisor
>   xen: package the EFI hypervisor binary /boot/xen.efi
>   xen: add RDEPENDS for xen-pygrub and xen-python packages
>   xen: retire Qemu packaging from the Xen recipe
>   xen: separate recipes for hypervisor and tools; switch to git as
>     source
>   xen-tools: move xentrace_setmask into the xentrace package
>   xen: add seabios to RRECOMMENDS of xen-tools when HVM-enabled
>   xen-image-minimal: add kernel-module-tun for HVM guest networking
>   xen-tools: change globbing to fix syntax highlighting
>   xen, xen-tools: update recipes for python3
>   xen, xen-tools: separate COMPATIBLE_HOST for hypervisor and tools
>   xen, xen-tools: remove stubs task and use multilib when necessary
>   xen, xen-tools: bug fix to post_patch task
>   xen: add contact to recipe README file
>   xen-image-minimal: add a build dependency on the xen hypervisor
>   xen: add menuconfig instructions to the README
>   xen, xen-tools: updates to the deploy task
> 
>  .gitignore                                    |   1 +
>  recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_%.bbappend         |   1 +
>  recipes-extended/images/xen-image-minimal.bb  |  10 +-
>  .../files/ipxe-fix-hostcc-nopie-cflags.patch  |  58 +-
>  recipes-extended/ipxe/ipxe_git.bb             |   2 +-
>  .../seabios/seabios/python3.patch             |  13 +
>  .../{seabios_1.11.2.bb => seabios_1.13.0.bb}  |  13 +-
>  recipes-extended/xen/README                   |  13 +-
>  ...ython-pygrub-pass-DISTUTILS-xen.4.12.patch |   7 +-
>  .../files/xen-tools-libxl-gentypes-py3.patch  | 140 +++
>  ...tools-pygrub-change-tabs-into-spaces.patch |  40 +
>  ...-python-scripts-work-with-2.6-and-up.patch | 529 ++++++++++
>  .../xen/files/xen-tools-pygrub-py3.patch      | 233 +++++
>  ...ls-python-fix-Wsign-compare-warnings.patch | 136 +++
>  ...n-tools-update-python-scripts-to-py3.patch | 140 +++
>  recipes-extended/xen/xen-blktap.inc           |  76 ++
>  recipes-extended/xen/xen-hypervisor.inc       | 111 ++
>  recipes-extended/xen/xen-python2.bb           |  68 ++
>  recipes-extended/xen/xen-tools.inc            | 792 ++++++++++++++
>  recipes-extended/xen/xen-tools_git.bb         |  24 +
>  recipes-extended/xen/xen.inc                  | 970 +-----------------
>  recipes-extended/xen/xen_4.12.0.bb            |  12 -
>  recipes-extended/xen/xen_git.bb               |  19 +-
>  recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto/xen.cfg      |   3 +-
>  .../lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg-biosxen.py | 212 ++++
>  wic/directdisk-bootloader-xen.cfg             |  17 +
>  wic/directdisk-bootloader-xen.wks             |  12 +
>  wic/directdisk-xen.wks                        |  10 +
>  28 files changed, 2642 insertions(+), 1020 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_%.bbappend
>  create mode 100644 recipes-extended/seabios/seabios/python3.patch
>  rename recipes-extended/seabios/{seabios_1.11.2.bb => seabios_1.13.0.bb} (67%)
>  create mode 100644 recipes-extended/xen/files/xen-tools-libxl-gentypes-py3.patch
>  create mode 100644 recipes-extended/xen/files/xen-tools-pygrub-change-tabs-into-spaces.patch
>  create mode 100644 recipes-extended/xen/files/xen-tools-pygrub-make-python-scripts-work-with-2.6-and-up.patch
>  create mode 100644 recipes-extended/xen/files/xen-tools-pygrub-py3.patch
>  create mode 100644 recipes-extended/xen/files/xen-tools-python-fix-Wsign-compare-warnings.patch
>  create mode 100644 recipes-extended/xen/files/xen-tools-update-python-scripts-to-py3.patch
>  create mode 100644 recipes-extended/xen/xen-blktap.inc
>  create mode 100644 recipes-extended/xen/xen-hypervisor.inc
>  create mode 100644 recipes-extended/xen/xen-python2.bb
>  create mode 100644 recipes-extended/xen/xen-tools.inc
>  create mode 100644 recipes-extended/xen/xen-tools_git.bb
>  delete mode 100644 recipes-extended/xen/xen_4.12.0.bb
>  create mode 100644 scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg-biosxen.py
>  create mode 100644 wic/directdisk-bootloader-xen.cfg
>  create mode 100644 wic/directdisk-bootloader-xen.wks
>  create mode 100644 wic/directdisk-xen.wks
> 
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