Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 5/6] Clone and build Seabios by default

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 5/6] Clone and build Seabios by 
default"):
> Unfortunately I expect that distros will want to package qemu once (from
> upstream) with support for all the various options, including Xen,
> enabled and depend on that in their Xen packaging rather than packaging
> a slightly different qemu a second time.

Quite.

> I'm not sure how we can address this without exploding our test matrix.
> It seems like we need to test at a minimum the current qemu stable and
> development branches :-/

This is no different to the kernel, of course.  We don't do a very
good job of testing different upstream kernels but it's on my todo
list.

> > I don't have an opinion on seabios because I am nore sure how many
> > changes are we going to make to it. However I recall that you and/or
> > IanC were in favor of having or own branch of seabios as well.
> 
> I think that even if we never diverge from upstream and irrespective of
> whether we stick in lockstep or not we should host a tree to point our
> users (and default build) at. This gives us flexibility if we ever do
> need to diverge and also isolates our users from issues with 3rd party
> servers.

Indeed so.  But should it be one tree for each Xen branch, and does it
need a push gate ?

Ian.

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