Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.8] ipxe: update to newer commit

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 04:34:31PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("[PATCH for-4.8] ipxe: update to newer commit"):
> > The current commit in tree is rather old. It has come to a point that
> > cherry-picking commits from upstream isn't trivial anymore.
> > 
> > There is long term plan to track ipxe upstream, but for 4.8 release, we
> > should just update ipxe to a newer commit (they are using rolling
> > release model now).
> > 
> > Forward-port the one boot prompt patch that is still relevant and retire
> > the rest which are already in upstream.
> 
> As I said IRL, I think this is a goiod approach.  (I hadn't realised
> we were cloning it rather than getting a tarball from xenbits...)
> 
> How did you choose 827dd1bfee67daa683935ce65316f7e0f057fe1c ?
> 

That's the latest commit -- since upstream wants us to always use the
latest, I just picked that one.

I built that commit with gcc 4.9 and gcc 6.1, both compiled OK.
Realistically I don't expect issues with nic boot roms -- those are the
only things we really use AFAICT.

Wei.

> Ian.

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