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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL for-2.4 0/7] update ipxe roms,
	fix efi support
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

On 07/21/15 18:18, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 21 July 2015 at 17:10, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
>> With regards to git.qemu.org mirroring:
>> I could update the ipxe.git mirror URL on git.qemu.org to Gerd's
>> public repo and change the description to indicate that this includes
>> out-of-tree patches.  Please let me know if you'd like to go ahead.
>>
>> I'd prefer it if we don't ship a patched ipxe since Paolo mentions
>> Fedora already has a fix in place.  Instead of propagating that fix
>> into QEMU, let's focus on ipxe upstream to solve the problem.
> 
> I think this would be my preference too. I wouldn't absolutely
> rule out shipping a patched ipxe, but I think it should be a
> last resort

Yes, it should be. And, we're already there.

> and not something we do at this point in our
> release cycle.

Not contesting that.

Laszlo