Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] about ipxe version update

[Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>]

On 2014/12/4 16:07, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

>   Hi,
> 
>> When we tried the latest ipxe code, it's ok.
>> By git bisect, I found the patch of ipxe.git solved this problem.
>>
>> # git show 9f0b7f428af04d0c5ddda78f9b034625f2f91831
>> Author: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
>> Date:   Sun Jun 1 19:24:16 2014 +0100
> 
>> I noticed that the latest ipxe version in qemu is 2014.5.15, and was included
>> in Qemu-2.1 release version.
>>
>> commit d880b28cef4a8b4bc489a5caec201d019b9c0add
>> Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
>> Date:   Thu May 15 14:23:59 2014 +0200
>>
>>     ipxe: update to current git
>>     
>>     Now that ipxe has separate settings for load / boot banner timeouts
>>     re-enable the boot banner while keeping the load banner turned off,
>>     so we don't add a delay to non-pxe boots.
>>
>> Does we have a plan to update ipxe version in QEMU? Thanks.
> 
> Picking up a bugfix is a pretty good reason to update ...
> 
>> I know QEMU 2.2 will be released tomorrow, December 5th.
>> Maybe we can't catch up with that.
> 
> ... but not one day before the release.  We can do the update early in
> 2.3 though, and maybe cherry-pick for 2.2.1 after it got some testing.
> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 
> 

Got it, thanks!

Regards,
-Gonglei