From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jan Beulich" Subject: Re: Stable backport request for new OVMF version Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 02:09:17 -0600 Message-ID: <55B20ECD0200007800094FC0@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> References: <1437662602.24746.6.camel@citrix.com> <55B11B920200007800094B13@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <1437663505.24746.7.camel@citrix.com> <55B1242F0200007800094BC3@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <20150723153133.GD12377@zion.uk.xensource.com> <55B126560200007800094BEE@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <1437667198.24746.11.camel@citrix.com> <55B12E470200007800094C73@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <1437668591.24746.25.camel@citrix.com> <55B209BD0200007800094F73@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <20150724075647.GD6750@zion.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIY2k-0004Eg-2p for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:09:22 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20150724075647.GD6750@zion.uk.xensource.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell , Wei Liu Cc: Anthony Perard , xen-devel , Ian Jackson List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org >>> On 24.07.15 at 09:56, wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 01:47:41AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> On 23.07.15 at 18:23, wrote: >> > On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 10:11 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >> > >> >> > > > On 23.07.15 at 17:59, 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. :-) So what we really want is a backport of b28da5fc1c + 28e5d9a9ad. Ian - is this needed on 4.4 and 4.5, or just the latter? Jan