From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41784) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cfq5x-0003AK-LR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:41:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cfq5u-0004ms-J9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:41:45 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:46900) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cfq5u-0004mf-Cg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:41:42 -0500 References: <20170220155752.32892bc3@nial.brq.redhat.com> From: Laszlo Ersek Message-ID: <6ad09d32-8d26-3f55-3922-a913275fc9d1@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 16:41:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170220155752.32892bc3@nial.brq.redhat.com> 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: Igor Mammedov , ben@skyportsystems.com, Gerd Hoffmann , Kevin O'Connor Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mst@redhat.com 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? Thanks! Laszlo