Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.4 development update: RC0 imminent

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 05:53:21PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
[...]
> >>OK, so I'm clearly in two minds about this ;-)
> >>
> >>George -- what do you think?
> >>
> >My two cents would be let's see if we can upstream OVMF side patches in
> >time (it looks quite close now but I cannot say for sure, it's not
> >controlled by us ;-)), then release it in 4.4 and mark this feature as
> >experimental. Otherwise there's no need to merge Xen side patches.
> 
> In time for what?
> 

I mean to have those OVMF side patches applied to upstream tree within
certain time frame then we can push those changes to our tree and
publish a hash in Config.mk in time for 4.4.

> Like I said, I think downloading a repo / tarball and building it is
> much lower than applying patches and then building.  And changing
> editing the one file in the Xen tree that has the commit hash is
> easier yet.  So I think there's an advantage to checking them in
> even if OVMF isn't upstream by the time we release.
> 

I guess this would work as well.

> And since OVMF is broken now anyway, we can't really break it; so
> there's little risk. :-)
> 

Right. I certainly cannot make it more broken than what we had in 4.3.
:-P

Wei.

>  -George

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