From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: Stable backport request for new OVMF version Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:43:22 +0100 Message-ID: <1437662602.24746.6.camel@citrix.com> References: <1437659800.19412.104.camel@citrix.com> <55B115D00200007800094AA8@prv-mh.provo.novell.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 1ZIHiZ-0007vq-8i for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:43:27 +0000 In-Reply-To: <55B115D00200007800094AA8@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich Cc: Anthony Perard , Ian Jackson , Wei Liu , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 08:26 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > > > > > > On 23.07.15 at 15:56, 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. > > To be honest I didn't even know we support use of OVMF in any > released version (nor in unstable). When did this change? It was present in 4.3. I don't think we build it by default since its toolchain is a bit picky, but we turn it on and test it in osstest from 4.4 onwards. You can ask for it with bios="ovmf" in your hvm guest's config. Ian.