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

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 24.02.16 at 15:41, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:34:31AM -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> 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?
>> 
> 
> With my recently acquired seabios maintainer hat on:
> 
>   Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> One of the committers will need to pick this up to do the actual push.

I can't see a rel-1.9.1 tag yet in the repo on xenbits, so - are you
sure?

Jan


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