Re: Stable backport request for new OVMF version

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 08:51 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > 
> > > > On 23.07.15 at 16:43, <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 08:26 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > > On 23.07.15 at 15:56, <ian.campbell@citrix.com> 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.
> 
> Well, that means it can be used by the adventurous, but it doesn't
> mean we consider it supported.

TBH, I'm more concerned that it is a blocker for upgrade osstest to
Debian Jessie, which in turn is a prerequisite for testing arm64.

Ian.