Re: [Xen-devel] Stable backport request for new OVMF version

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 23.07.15 at 16:43, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 08:26 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> > 
>> > > > On 23.07.15 at 15:56, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > The version of OVMF in 4.5 (and presumably earlier) doesn't build 
>> > with
>> > the gcc in modern Linux distros (I noticed it with 4.9 from
>> > Debian/Jessie).
>> > 
>> > I think we should update Config.mk:OVMF_UPSTREAM_REVISION to
>> > cb9a7ebabcd6b8a49dc0854b2f9592d732b5afbd in all stable branches. 
>> > That
>> > version is the one currently in master.
>> 
>> To be honest I didn't even know we support use of OVMF in any
>> released version (nor in unstable). When did this change?
> 
> It was present in 4.3. I don't think we build it by default since its
> toolchain is a bit picky, but we turn it on and test it in osstest from
> 4.4 onwards.
> 
> You can ask for it with bios="ovmf" in your hvm guest's config.

Well, that means it can be used by the adventurous, but it doesn't
mean we consider it supported.

Jan


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