Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.6, OVMF and arm64

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 01:55:39PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 12:29 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > > I can send a patch for Config.mk when the patch passed our tests.
> > > 
> > > For xen-unstable I think we should just move up to
> > >  
> > > http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=osstest/ovmf.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/xen-tested-master
> > > 
> > > We don't have any separate tests for ovmf in 4.6 (since there is currently
> > > no correpsonding git branch to even test, I think) so the only way to
> > > trigger those would be to backport a Config.mk change (again, I think).
> >  
> > Maybe we should have a separate tree/branch for ovmf 4.6? What if a bug
> > is found?
> 
> In theory we can. But OVMF doesn't make release so this tree / branch
> would be hard to manage. EDK (UDK?) makes release, but we don't know yet
> how it's managed, and we don't know whether OVMF developer care about
> those releases enough to backport their fixes.

Couldn't we choose a baseline, for example
cb9a7ebabcd6b8a49dc0854b2f9592d732b5afbd, then backport to it any
commits, or fixes that  we deem necessary?

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