[Xen-changelog] [xen master] hvmloader: add knob for fixed VGABIOS date string

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commit f725b311c40b3ccac4b5429cabcc27de044656c0
Author:     Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed Apr 1 13:28:35 2015 +0000
Commit:     Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu Apr 2 10:46:11 2015 +0100

    hvmloader: add knob for fixed VGABIOS date string
    
    To allow reproducible builds of hvmloader introduce a make variable
    VGABIOS_REL_DATE="dd Mon yyyy" to provide a fixed date string. Without
    this change the hvmloader binary changes with every rebuild.
    
    Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 INSTALL                         |    1 +
 tools/firmware/vgabios/Makefile |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bf412ef..a0f2e7b 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ can be used to provide fixed timestamps in the expected 
format.
 XEN_BUILD_DATE=<output of date(1)>
 XEN_BUILD_TIME=hh:mm:ss
 SMBIOS_REL_DATE=mm/dd/yyyy
+VGABIOS_REL_DATE="dd Mon yyyy"
 
 The following variables can be used to tweak some aspects of the
 hypervisor build.
diff --git a/tools/firmware/vgabios/Makefile b/tools/firmware/vgabios/Makefile
index 51d9e6e..3284812 100644
--- a/tools/firmware/vgabios/Makefile
+++ b/tools/firmware/vgabios/Makefile
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ BCC = bcc
 AS86 = as86
 
 RELEASE = `pwd | sed "s-.*/--"`
-RELDATE = `date '+%d %b %Y'`
+VGABIOS_REL_DATE ?= `date '+%d %b %Y'`
 RELVERS = `pwd | sed "s-.*/--" | sed "s/vgabios//" | sed "s/-//"`
 
-VGABIOS_DATE = "-DVGABIOS_DATE=\"$(RELDATE)\""
+VGABIOS_DATE = "-DVGABIOS_DATE=\"$(VGABIOS_REL_DATE)\""
 
 .PHONY: all
 all: bios cirrus-bios
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