Re: [PULL 0/2] Seabios 1.17.0 20250611 patches

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/06/2025 15.08, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11/06/2025 21.09, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 11/06/2025 09.50, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >>>>> The following changes since commit bc98ffdc7577e55ab8373c579c28fe24d600c40f:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>      Merge tag 'pull-10.1-maintainer-may-2025-070625-1' of https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu into staging (2025-06-07 15:08:55 -0400)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> are available in the Git repository at:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>      https://gitlab.com/kraxel/qemu.git tags/seabios-1.17.0-20250611-pull-request
> >>>>>
> >>>>> for you to fetch changes up to cba36cf3881e907553ba2de38abd5edf7f952de1:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>      seabios: update binaries to 1.17.0 (2025-06-11 09:45:00 +0200)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>> seabios: update to 1.17.0 release
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Gerd Hoffmann (2):
> >>>>>      seabios: update submodule to 1.17.0
> >>>>>      seabios: update binaries to 1.17.0
> >>>>
> >>>>     Hi Gerd, hi Stefan,
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm now getting this when doing a git pull:
> >>>>
> >>>> Fetching submodule roms/seabios
> >>>> fatal: remote error: upload-pack: not our ref
> >>>> b52ca86e094d19b58e2304417787e96b940e39c6
> >>>> Errors during submodule fetch:
> >>>>           roms/seabios
> >>>
> >>> GitLab CI didn't detect this, probably because the tests don't build
> >>> SeaBIOS from source and use the binaries instead. Given infinite CI
> >>> resources we should rebuild all ROMs from source to catch problems
> >>> like this one.
> >>>
> >>> I wanted to mention this in case anyone wants to tighten up the CI to
> >>> catch these issues for SeaBIOS and other ROMs.
> >>>
> >>>> Looking at
> >>>> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/seabios/-/commits/master?ref_type=HEADS
> >>>> there is a problem with the mirroring:
> >>>>
> >>>> "This project is mirrored from https://review.coreboot.org/seabios. Pull
> >>>> mirroring failed 4 months ago.
> >>>> Repository mirroring has been paused due to too many failed attempts. It can
> >>>> be resumed by a project maintainer or owner.
> >>>> Last successful update 4 months ago. This branch has diverged from upstream. "
> >>>>
> >>>> Could you please fix this?
> >>>
> >>> `git clone https://review.coreboot.org/seabios` works on my machine,
> >>> but I manually clicked the "update" button and GitLab failed again.
> >>>
> >>> In the GitLab UI there is a button to add a new mirror repo. I thought
> >>> maybe we can delete the old repo and add a new one, but the push/pull
> >>> direction dropdown list is disabled. Maybe that's because only 1 repo
> >>> can be a mirror source for pull, I'm worried that deleting the
> >>> existing failed repo will leave us with no way to add a new repo that
> >>> supports pull.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone know how to go about fixing this failed mirror?
> >>
> >> Maybe do a manual push --force to our mirror to sync them again? ... but it
> >> would be good to know how this could have happened at all - maybe seabios
> >> force-pushed their master branch at one point in time? Or did we commit
> >> something to the mirror that was not in the upstream repository?
> >>
> >> Anyway, I just noticed that it seems to be working now again - how did you
> >> fix it?
> >
> > I didn't fix it. GitLab's mirror operation is still failing.
>
> Oh, ok! Maybe the error message only pops up if I pull changes into my local
> master branch, and during my last fetch there were only changes coming in
> for the "origin/staging", and those didn't trigger the error message.
> Anyway, I'll keep my eyes open!

Hi Thomas,
I force pushed upstream SeaBIOS to QEMU's mirror repo and now the
GitLab mirroring feature is operational again.

Thanks for your help getting to the bottom of this!

Stefan