Re: [PATCH] Config.mk: Update SEABIOS_UPSTREAM_TAG to rel-1.9.1

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:14:09AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 24.02.16 at 15:41, <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:34:31AM -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> >> On 2/16/16 7:52 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 01:43:26PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> >> On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 16:13 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> >> >>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 08:38:02AM -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> >> >>>> Switch from tracking a commit post 1.9.0 to the 1.9.1 release.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Thanks for this patch.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> We can't apply this patch just yet. We need to wait a bit until the
> >> >>> change to upstream trickles down to our own tree [0] -- OSSTest will
> >> >>> work on that shortly. See [1] for an example output.
> >> >>
> >> >> Our osstest branch only tests seabios.git#master whereas this is tracking
> >> >> the 1.9.x stable branch.
> >> >>
> >> >> I don't think we really want/need the overhead of testing multiple branches
> >> >> of SeaBIOS, so IMHO it is sufficient to observe that all of the commits on
> >> >> the stable branch have passed our master branch commit gate (even if that
> >> >> means they did so in the context of other un-backported patches). I haven't
> >> >> checked but given the timings and http://logs.test-lab.xenproject.org/osste 
> >> >> st/results/all-branch-statuses.txt indicating our seabios branch is up to
> >> >> date I expect this is the case.
> >> >>
> >> >> There is some risk to this, but SeaBIOS gets a fairly small number of
> >> >> changes so the stable branches do not stray too far from master in general
> >> >> so I think this approach is fine.
> >> >>
> >> >> IOW it would be fine to push upstreams 1.9-stable to our repo along with
> >> >> the rel-1.9.1 tag and to then apply this patch.
> >> >>
> >> > 
> >> > Makes sense.
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> ping?
> >> 
> > 
> > With my recently acquired seabios maintainer hat on:
> > 
> >   Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> > 
> > One of the committers will need to pick this up to do the actual push.
> 
> I can't see a rel-1.9.1 tag yet in the repo on xenbits, so - are you
> sure?
> 

That's what I meant -- a committer needs to fetch from upstream tree
then push the tag to our own seabios tree before applying this patch.

The upstream tree is at git://git.seabios.org/seabios.git .

If you can handle that, it would be great. :-)


Wei.

> Jan
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