Re: [PATCH] Fetch the OVMF repository from specific git mirror and enable it

[Attilio Rao <attilio.rao@citrix.com>]

On 01/03/12 08:09, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 19:37 +0000, Attilio Rao wrote:
>    
>> - Fetch the OVMF parent tree from: http://github.com/tianocore/edk2.git
>> - Add a simple Makefile to edk2 that automagically runs the right scripts
>>    to build OVMF and setles the resulting binary properly
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Attilio Rao<attilio.rao@citrix.com>
>>      
> This looks good to me but we would usually mirror the git tree on
> xenbits to avoid consuming 3rd party resources.
>
>    

When we informally spoke about it I had the impression we had to prefer 
using their git repo.
However I'm fine with mirroring their git repo, how can I find 
instructions on how to set it up?

> Do we want to track upstream's master branch, which would require us to
> have a staging->tested push gateway, or have a particular tag which we
> update in order to upgrade? In the latter case ideally it would be a
> meaningful tag (e.g. a stable release) but if none such exist (which
> appears to be the case) then we could just pick some reasonable point in
> the development history.
>    

I've personally just tested the current master branch, not sure if there 
is any instability we should worry about, so the current snapshot could 
be a good starting point.
There doesn't seem to be any stable branch, however, thus we should just 
go with master or consider working snapshot from it.

How do you prefer to proceed then?

Attilio