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

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 14:51 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > I am very practical in this regard and I just don't want the raisin
> > build to fail on arm64 with xen 4.6.  We could have a different raisin
> > config file, with a different ovmf revision for Xen 4.6 on arm64, but I
> > would prefer to avoid it: I think it is nicer and simpler if one config
> > file per Xen release was provided, no matter the underlying arch.
> > In other words ovmf is built separately on raisin on x86 too, but I
> > would prefer if we used the same ovmf revision for all archs.
> 
> Please bear in mind that what you are asking is has consequences outside of
> raisin which are not necessarily simple.
> 
> Right now we do not having a branching strategy for ovmf, so cherry-picking
> fixes for aarch64 means someone would need to come up with one and
> implement it. There are also the implications which Wei raised.
> 
> Based on Wei's comments regarding support from upstream it seems like we
> should probably just pull ovmf forward to something newer (~= current
> tested master based on x86 testing) for 4.6.1.

That's fine for me

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