Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: ipxe: update for fixing build with GCC9

[Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 15:30, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Wei Liu writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: ipxe: update for fixing build 
> with GCC9"):
> > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 12:13:49AM +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > > Building with GCC9 (on openSUSE Tubmleweed) generates a lot of errors of
> > > the "taking address of packed member of ... may result in an unaligned
> > > pointer value" kind.
> > >
> > > Updating to upstream commit 1dd56dbd11082 ("[build] Workaround compilation
> > > error with gcc 9.1") seems to fix the problem.
> > >
> > > For more info, see:
> ...
> > Yes this is what we normally do.
> >
> > Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks all.  Should this be backported anywhere ?  I'm inclined to say
> "no" because someone who wants this can easily change it themselves,
> and we don't want to disturb stable users with an ipxe version update.
>

Agreed. I don't think this needs to be backported.

Wei.

> But I'm open to opinions.
>
> Ian.

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