From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42922) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cfq9v-0006zt-L2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:45:52 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cfq9s-0005wA-I4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:45:51 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-x243.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::243]:34929) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cfq9s-0005w3-Dh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:45:48 -0500 Received: by mail-qk0-x243.google.com with SMTP id n127so3807056qkf.2 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2017 07:45:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:45:46 -0500 From: Kevin O'Connor Message-ID: <20170220154546.GA25159@morn.lan> References: <20170220155752.32892bc3@nial.brq.redhat.com> <6ad09d32-8d26-3f55-3922-a913275fc9d1@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6ad09d32-8d26-3f55-3922-a913275fc9d1@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 0/8] Add support for VM Generation ID List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Laszlo Ersek Cc: Igor Mammedov , ben@skyportsystems.com, Gerd Hoffmann , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mst@redhat.com On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 04:41:38PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 02/20/17 15:57, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:15:32 -0800 > > ben@skyportsystems.com wrote: > > > >> From: Ben Warren > >> > >> This patch set adds support for passing a GUID to Windows guests. It is a > >> re-implementation of previous patch sets written by Igor Mammedov et al, but > >> this time passing the GUID data as a fw_cfg blob. > >> > >> This patch set has dependencies on new guest functionality, in particular the > >> support for a new linker-loader command and the ability to write back data > >> to QEMU over a DMA link. Work is in flight in both SeaBIOS and OVMF to support this. > >> > >> v7->v8: > >> - Rebased to top of tree. > >> - Fixed two small bugs in "write pointer" function > >> - minor re-ordering of data in patches > >> - Fixed unit test by adding delays/retries to reading RSDP table > > Michael, > > > > series looks good for merging. > > Patch > > [PATCH v8 7/8] tests: Add unit tests for the VM Generation ID feature > > needs updated seabios blob to make 'make check' happy > > so we probably should merge/update seabios first > > [PATCH v5 0/5] QEMU: Add capability to write back fw_cfg address to QEMU > > > > CCing Gerd and Kevin. > > > > That's sort of a circular dependency, as Kevin generally prefers to > merge SeaBIOS patches once the underlying QEMU code has been committed :) > > For a total ordering, all QEMU patches except v8 7/8 could be merged in > QEMU, then the v5 SeaBIOS patches could be merged, then Gerd could > refresh the bundled SeaBIOS binaries, then QEMU patch v8 7/8 could be > merged. > > I'm not actually suggesting that though, given that the soft freeze is > in about a week. > > Kevin, can you please make an exception this time and merge the SeaBIOS > patches ahead of the QEMU patches? Yes. Gerd - are you planning to backport this series to the stable branch? -Kevin