From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Attilio Rao Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fetch the OVMF repository from specific git mirror and enable it Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 10:30:05 +0000 Message-ID: <4F4F4FAD.3090502@citrix.com> References: <7bdf0747c170499fabf0.1330544276@dhcp-3-145.uk.xensource.com> <1330589358.10008.124.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1330589358.10008.124.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 >> > 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