Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Config.mk: Update SEABIOS_UPSTREAM_TAG to rel-1.9.1

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/16/16 7:52 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 01:43:26PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 16:13 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 08:38:02AM -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>>>> Switch from tracking a commit post 1.9.0 to the 1.9.1 release.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for this patch.
>>>
>>> We can't apply this patch just yet. We need to wait a bit until the
>>> change to upstream trickles down to our own tree [0] -- OSSTest will
>>> work on that shortly. See [1] for an example output.
>>
>> Our osstest branch only tests seabios.git#master whereas this is tracking
>> the 1.9.x stable branch.
>>
>> I don't think we really want/need the overhead of testing multiple branches
>> of SeaBIOS, so IMHO it is sufficient to observe that all of the commits on
>> the stable branch have passed our master branch commit gate (even if that
>> means they did so in the context of other un-backported patches). I haven't
>> checked but given the timings and http://logs.test-lab.xenproject.org/osste
>> st/results/all-branch-statuses.txt indicating our seabios branch is up to
>> date I expect this is the case.
>>
>> There is some risk to this, but SeaBIOS gets a fairly small number of
>> changes so the stable branches do not stray too far from master in general
>> so I think this approach is fine.
>>
>> IOW it would be fine to push upstreams 1.9-stable to our repo along with
>> the rel-1.9.1 tag and to then apply this patch.
>>
> 
> Makes sense.
> 

ping?

-- 
Doug Goldstein

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