Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Config.mk: update OVMF changeset

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 11:17 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 12/09/2013 11:10 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 11:04:23AM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> >> On 12/08/2013 08:50 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
> >>> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> This lacks a description of what the effect will be of updating to
> >> this changeset.  I'm guessing that the OVMF side of your recent
> >> fixes have gotten checked in?
> >>
> > Yes, necessary patches to integrate OVMF with Xen is upstreamed now.
> >
> > The original changeset in Config.mk:
> > 1. doesn't work with guest > 4G ram
> > 2. messes up PCI resource mapping
> >
> > The version of OVMF fixes those bugs and works well for me.
> 
> re the interface, we generally plan on building OVMF ourselves, right?  
> I don't think the interface between Xen and OVMF necessarily needs to be 
> stable at this point.
> 
> In any case, the interface changes are already in Xen; this doesn't make 
> the interface available, it just makes it easier for people to build OVMF.
> 
> Release-acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

acked + applied. Also pushed the requested update to ovmf.git.

For now I have held off on applying the patch which enables OVMF by
default ("tools: enable OVMF build for Linux by default"). I think that
deserves its own Release ack/nack.

Ian.


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