Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] hvmloader: add knob for fixed VGABIOS date string

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 02.04.15 at 11:45, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 13:28 +0000, Olaf Hering wrote:
>> To allow reproducible builds of hvmloader introduce a make variable
>> VGABIOS_REL_DATE="dd Mon yyyy" to provide a fixed date string. Without
>> this change the hvmloader binary changes with every rebuild.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> It's not clear if vgabios should be maintained by us tools folks or if
> it should have been taken under the hvmloader umbrella and maintained by
> the hypervisor folks.

I'm not sure either - hvmloader is really code we grew and hence
maintaining it together with its hypervisor side makes sense. For
the various firmware blobs, otoh, I think they match more closely
with the qemu/tools pattern.

Jan


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