Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 5/6] Clone and build Seabios by default

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 5/6] Clone and build 
> Seabios by default"):
> > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 5/6] Clone and 
> > > build Seabios by default"):
> > > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 17:39 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > > > > I see you have included a lockstep changeset number in xen-unstable
> > > > > > but are we really able to force these to update in lockstep ?
> > > 
> > > Did you have an answer for this ?
> > 
> > The answer is yes. Unless there is a bug that I didn't manage to find of
> > course.
> 
> That doesn't sound like an answer to my question.
> 
> To put it another way: are we intending to permanently maintain a
> branch of seabios and a branch of qemu upstream ?  Are we going to
> have one such branch for each branch of Xen ?  Are we expecting our
> downstreams to use our specific version of qemu and seabios, rather
> than building from upstream ?

I think "yes" in case of qemu, at the very least for the different
release times of the xen and qemu projects.
I don't have an opinion on seabios because I am nore sure how many
changes are we going to make to it. However I recall that you and/or
IanC were in favor of having or own branch of seabios as well.
BTW I think it is probably better if IanC maintains seabios if we decide
to have our own branch, given that he is the one that did most of the
work on it so far.

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