Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools/seabios: override $(PYTHON)

[Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>]

On 02/22/12 12:53, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 16:17 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > it needs to be what you would need to
> > > edit to change the result of the Xen build.  So either it must be
> > > .._TAG
> > I'll choose this option. I'll also edit the repo description to make it
> > clear that all branches are rebasing.
> >
> > >   or it must be some fast-forwarding branch constructed from the
> > > series of _TAG values.  (Ie, a branch whose commits correspond 1:1
> > > with _TAG values, each commit on the master branch having the previous
> > > master commit as its left parent and the _TAG, which determines the
> > > contents, as the right parent.)
> > I think I'd inevitably end up cocking this scheme up, especially given
> > the expected frequency of seabios updates (e.g. v. low).
> ... actually I don't need to pick between the two until this actually
> happens. When it does happen I'll play with the second option and
> determine if I am capable of not making a mess of it etc.
>
> For now I have cherry-picked the upstream fix onto a new branch
> "1.6.3-stable-xen" and pushed that branch to our repo. I have also
> updated the "xen-unstable" branch (the default branch) with the same.
>
> IanJ -- when you are ready to push the xen-unstable.hg side please
> include an update of SEABIOS_UPSTREAM_TAG to
> 002d30b5f4f48ee203be3bad9d68dc8b538ee35b (instead of rel-1.6.3.1 as it
> is currently).
There is still one fix missing from upstream, namely: 
805ede2bd35243a4298bc64bd81be6db7cf57f58
Christoph

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