From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Juergen Schinker <ba1020@homie.homelinux.net>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.8] ipxe: update to newer commit
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:44:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161010154447.GW3687@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22523.46343.852.762921@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 04:34:31PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("[PATCH for-4.8] ipxe: update to newer commit"):
> > The current commit in tree is rather old. It has come to a point that
> > cherry-picking commits from upstream isn't trivial anymore.
> >
> > There is long term plan to track ipxe upstream, but for 4.8 release, we
> > should just update ipxe to a newer commit (they are using rolling
> > release model now).
> >
> > Forward-port the one boot prompt patch that is still relevant and retire
> > the rest which are already in upstream.
>
> As I said IRL, I think this is a goiod approach. (I hadn't realised
> we were cloning it rather than getting a tarball from xenbits...)
>
> How did you choose 827dd1bfee67daa683935ce65316f7e0f057fe1c ?
>
That's the latest commit -- since upstream wants us to always use the
latest, I just picked that one.
I built that commit with gcc 4.9 and gcc 6.1, both compiled OK.
Realistically I don't expect issues with nic boot roms -- those are the
only things we really use AFAICT.
Wei.
> Ian.
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-10 12:50 [PATCH for-4.8] ipxe: update to newer commit Wei Liu
2016-10-10 15:34 ` Ian Jackson
2016-10-10 15:44 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-10-10 15:51 ` Ian Jackson
2016-10-10 16:33 ` Wei Liu
2016-10-10 17:38 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-10-11 9:40 ` Wei Liu
2016-10-11 9:52 ` Ian Jackson
2016-10-11 12:52 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-10-11 13:32 ` Ian Jackson
2016-10-11 14:27 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-10-11 14:54 ` Ian Jackson
2016-10-11 17:11 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-10-12 7:45 ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-12 11:00 ` [PATCH for-4.8] ipxe: update to newer commit [and 1 more messages] Ian Jackson
2016-10-12 14:09 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-10-12 14:14 ` Wei Liu
2016-10-12 14:16 ` Ian Jackson
2016-10-11 21:11 ` [PATCH for-4.8] ipxe: update to newer commit Andrew Cooper
2016-10-11 21:17 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-10-12 7:50 ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10 18:28 ` Juergen Schinker
2016-10-11 9:37 ` Wei Liu
2016-10-11 9:42 ` Juergen Schinker
2016-10-11 9:45 ` Wei Liu
2016-10-11 19:31 ` Juergen Schinker
2016-10-11 19:45 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-12 9:27 ` Wei Liu
2016-10-12 21:03 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-10-13 9:04 ` Wei Liu
2016-10-13 9:10 ` Juergen Schinker
2016-10-13 9:29 ` Wei Liu
2016-10-13 10:02 ` Juergen Schinker
2016-10-13 14:53 ` Wei Liu
[not found] ` <1633715062.155.1476375972276.JavaMail.zimbra@homie.homelinux.net>
2016-10-13 16:45 ` Wei Liu
2016-10-13 19:58 ` ANNOUNCEMENT] Xen 4.8 RC2 FULL SUCCESS 13.10.16 Juergen Schinker
2016-10-13 9:32 ` [PATCH for-4.8] ipxe: update to newer commit Wei Liu
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