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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Stable backport request for new OVMF version
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:50:24 +0100
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On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 02:09 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > 
> > > > On 24.07.15 at 09:56, <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 01:47:41AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > > On 23.07.15 at 18:23, <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 10:11 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > On 23.07.15 at 17:59, <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 09:37 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > It's marked as experimental, not supported and not 
> > > > > > > > built by 
> > > > > > > > default 
> > > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > > if that makes you feel more comfortable.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > It does. So Ian, feel free to go ahead.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Thanks. I suppose you were addressing Ian J here since I 
> > > > > > don't
> > > > > > typically do stable release work.
> > > > > 
> > > > > No, since this was mainly for ARM (for which I recall you 
> > > > > doing
> > > > > backports), I did indeed mean you.
> > > > 
> > > > OVMF isn't for ARM, it's x86.
> > > > 
> > > > I don't think we build OVMF for ARM under any circumstances. (I 
> > > > was
> > > > hoping to add that to raisin at some point, but that's another 
> > > > story)
> > > 
> > > But didn't you say it's a prereq for ARM64? Or was that only
> > > implicitly through the intended Debian update?
> > > 
> > 
> > The prerequisite for ARM64 (in fact, running ARM64 test case in 
> > OSSTest)
> > is OSSTest needs to upgrade to Debian Jessie. Ian wasn't clear 
> > about
> > that in his reply. :-)

That's right, sorry for not being clear.

> So what we really want is a backport of b28da5fc1c + 28e5d9a9ad.

Yes, that looks like the right pair.

> Ian - is this needed on 4.4 and 4.5, or just the latter?

Osstest tests OVMF from 4.4 onwards, so I think both.

Ian.