From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45892) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHaFz-0008WJ-D3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:19:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHaFv-0001E1-Fo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:19:03 -0400 Received: from mail-vn0-f52.google.com ([209.85.216.52]:33920) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHaFv-0001Dt-CD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:18:59 -0400 Received: by vnds125 with SMTP id s125so37695426vnd.1 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 09:18:58 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1437143854-2826-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <55AE0821.5040701@redhat.com> <55AE4D60.3000908@redhat.com> <55AE52A3.1060108@redhat.com> <55AE570F.30602@redhat.com> From: Peter Maydell Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:18:39 +0100 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL for-2.4 0/7] update ipxe roms, fix efi support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: Paolo Bonzini , Hannes Reinecke , Gerd Hoffmann , Stefan Hajnoczi , QEMU Developers On 21 July 2015 at 17:10, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > With regards to git.qemu.org mirroring: > I could update the ipxe.git mirror URL on git.qemu.org to Gerd's > public repo and change the description to indicate that this includes > out-of-tree patches. Please let me know if you'd like to go ahead. > > I'd prefer it if we don't ship a patched ipxe since Paolo mentions > Fedora already has a fix in place. Instead of propagating that fix > into QEMU, let's focus on ipxe upstream to solve the problem. I think this would be my preference too. I wouldn't absolutely rule out shipping a patched ipxe, but I think it should be a last resort and not something we do at this point in our release cycle. thanks -- PMM