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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: Stable backport request for new OVMF version
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:43:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1437662602.24746.6.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55B115D00200007800094AA8@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 08:26 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > 
> > > > On 23.07.15 at 15:56, <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > The version of OVMF in 4.5 (and presumably earlier) doesn't build 
> > with
> > the gcc in modern Linux distros (I noticed it with 4.9 from
> > Debian/Jessie).
> > 
> > I think we should update Config.mk:OVMF_UPSTREAM_REVISION to
> > cb9a7ebabcd6b8a49dc0854b2f9592d732b5afbd in all stable branches. 
> > That
> > version is the one currently in master.
> 
> To be honest I didn't even know we support use of OVMF in any
> released version (nor in unstable). When did this change?

It was present in 4.3. I don't think we build it by default since its
toolchain is a bit picky, but we turn it on and test it in osstest from
4.4 onwards.

You can ask for it with bios="ovmf" in your hvm guest's config.

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-23 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1437659800.19412.104.camel@citrix.com>
2015-07-23 14:19 ` Stable backport request for new OVMF version Ian Campbell
2015-07-23 14:26 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-23 14:43   ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-07-23 14:51     ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-23 14:58       ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-23 15:28         ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-23 15:31           ` Wei Liu
2015-07-23 15:37             ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-23 15:59               ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-23 16:11                 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-23 16:23                   ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-24  7:47                     ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-24  7:56                       ` Wei Liu
2015-07-24  8:09                         ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-24  8:50                           ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-23 15:04       ` Fabio Fantoni

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