Re: [PATCH 0/7] testing and misc updates (docker, ansible, .git*, gitlab)

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu> writes:

> On Wed, 1 Oct 2025, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 07:56:21PM +0200, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
>>> On Wed, 1 Oct 2025, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>>> My first set of patches for the development tree. Should be mostly
>>>> self-explanatory. We still need to apply the upstream COPYING patch
>>>> the u-boot-sam460ex code but we should decide if its worth mirroring
>>>> or should we just treat the copy as fully "ours".
>>>
>>> Which COPYING patch do you refer to? I have the upstream because when I
>>> submitted this I was told to do it this way instead of adding the u-boot
>>> sources to the QEMU tree. It can't be merged with the official u-boot used
>>> for e500 because it has sam460ex specific patches from the machine vendor
>>> which only supports this u-boot version. There are some updates from the
>>> vendor for real machine which I plan to add eventually but it's still based
>>> on an older u-boot version. With mirroring I can update upstream and send
>>> one patch to update the binary once it's mirrored, otherwise I'd need to
>>> send patches for each update and rely on somebody to merge them.
>>
>> I opened this:
>>
>>  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/u-boot-sam460ex/-/merge_requests/1
>>
>> but then learnt u-boot-sam460ex is actually a mirror of your github
>> repo, and haven't got around to opening a new MR for your repo.
>>
>> If you can pull the commits from that MR that'd be great, or I can
>> open a new MR, as you prefer.
>
> I can get the patches from the gitlab pull request above and apply
> them the my github repo, no need to send a pull request there. I just
> don't get notified about what happens on gitlab so I have not seen
> this.
>
> I'm not sure what Alex Bennée refers to as fixing up the mirror. Is it
> not mirroring now?

It was mirroring from github.com/qemu/u-boot-sam460ex - I thought I
might have to re-create it to get it to mirror from the right place but
it looks like you can tweak it in the config.
>
> Regards,
> BALATON Zoltan
>
>> With regards,
>> Daniel
>>

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro