Re: [xen-4.12-testing bisection] complete test-amd64-i386-xl-qemuu-ovmf-amd64

[Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 09:07:32AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 23.08.2021 02:40, osstest service owner wrote:
> >   commit d06eb2d1d9dd8da1ed84bd08c5783a0264fe2b64
> >   Author: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> >   Date:   Wed May 26 22:14:24 2021 +0200
> >   
> >       OvmfPkg/PlatformPei: remove Xen support
> 
> Uniformly from 4.15 through to 4.12 (the latter of which shouldn't have
> been affected by whatever has been pulled in in the first place, given
> it's a security-only branch, but with the OVMF commit to use being
> hardcoded in ./Config.mk I don't really understand how a possible
> change to the OVMF tree could have affected this version) tests are
> now failing, everywhere with the above bisection result. Given that we
> want to get out releases from the 4.15 and 4.13 branches right after
> the batch of XSAs going public on Wednesday, something needs to be
> done about this pretty soon.
> 
> Does osstest override ./Config.mk's choice? Albeit I guess even if it
> does that's not outright wrong, and instead it would be bad if the
> older versions wouldn't work anymore with an updated OVMF.

Yes, osstest uses "xen-tested-master" branch since c9d1e5896fe2
("cr-daily-branch: ovmf: "usually" use xen-tested-master") for stable
branches.

We are going to need to backport a commit from unstable. Either
    aad7b5c11d51 ("tools/firmware/ovmf: Use OvmfXen platform file is exist")
        (but has been reverted)
or
    81f291420238 ("tools/firmware/ovmf: Use OvmfXen platform file if exist and update OVMF")
        (but it also changes the version of ovmf pulled by default,
         which we probably don't want to change)

So I would suggest backporting aad7b5c11d51.

Cheers,

-- 
Anthony PERARD