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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Stable backport request for new OVMF version
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:19:35 +0100
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Forgot to CC the list, now done...

On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 14:56 +0100, Ian Campbell 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.
> 
> One aspect of the specific failure I've tripped over (Debian Jessie) is
> that it will be a blocker for updating osstest to using the new version
> of Debian on the test hosts, which in turn is a prerequisite for arm64
> support.
> 
> Ian.