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



>>> On 24.07.15 at 09:56, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 01:47:41AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 23.07.15 at 18:23, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 10:11 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >> > 
>> >> > > > On 23.07.15 at 17:59, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 09:37 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >> > > > 
>> >> > > > It's marked as experimental, not supported and not built by 
>> >> > > > default 
>> >> > > > --
>> >> > > > if that makes you feel more comfortable.
>> >> > > 
>> >> > > It does. So Ian, feel free to go ahead.
>> >> > 
>> >> > Thanks. I suppose you were addressing Ian J here since I don't
>> >> > typically do stable release work.
>> >> 
>> >> No, since this was mainly for ARM (for which I recall you doing
>> >> backports), I did indeed mean you.
>> > 
>> > OVMF isn't for ARM, it's x86.
>> > 
>> > I don't think we build OVMF for ARM under any circumstances. (I was
>> > hoping to add that to raisin at some point, but that's another story)
>> 
>> But didn't you say it's a prereq for ARM64? Or was that only
>> implicitly through the intended Debian update?
>> 
> 
> The prerequisite for ARM64 (in fact, running ARM64 test case in OSSTest)
> is OSSTest needs to upgrade to Debian Jessie. Ian wasn't clear about
> that in his reply. :-)

So what we really want is a backport of b28da5fc1c + 28e5d9a9ad.

Ian - is this needed on 4.4 and 4.5, or just the latter?

Jan


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