From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46845) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cfqOK-0003PH-Ot for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:00:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cfqOG-00049U-5V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:00:44 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:59598) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cfqOF-00049P-Uk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:00:40 -0500 References: <20170220155752.32892bc3@nial.brq.redhat.com> <6ad09d32-8d26-3f55-3922-a913275fc9d1@redhat.com> <20170220154546.GA25159@morn.lan> From: Laszlo Ersek Message-ID: <25bea714-db34-3250-2f30-64e0daf2ce0e@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 17:00:26 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170220154546.GA25159@morn.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Kevin O'Connor , Igor Mammedov , ben@skyportsystems.com, mst@redhat.com Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi On 02/20/17 16:45, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > 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. Thank you! Ben, Igor or Michael -- can one of you please add a paragraph on VMGENID to , later on? (Ben, if you don't have an account yet, I think Stefan (CC'd) can give you one.) Thanks! Laszlo > > Gerd - are you planning to backport this series to the stable branch? > > -Kevin >