Re: [Xen-devel] Upping gcc requirement for x86

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/30/18 3:50 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 3/29/18 12:05 PM, George Dunlap wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:45 PM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Long term I think we want to get away from building seabios ourselves
>>> altogether; but it's a bit late in the release cycle to work out that
>>> kind of change.
>>>
>>> On the whole I'd probably go with #3 at this point.
>>>
>>>  -George
>>>
>>
>> Violent agreement here. Every distro wants to see this so they can share
>> these blobs. Its what lead to the change to tracking tags in
>> 3dd926a25d866364ce6d46c21f9ac05a82fa7ffb originally.
> 
> I don't understand what you mean -- AFAIK there's no *dependency* from
> Xen to any particular version of SeaBIOS (unlike QEMU).  If 1.9 won't
> compile with gcc 4.4, but 1.8 does, we can just point the tag to 4.4.
> Distros will be compiling their own SeaBIOS versions anyway, no?
> 
> Or am I missing your point somehow?
> 
>  -George
> 

My point was we explicitly moved to testing/shipping tags so that we
distros could say "oh this is what the Xen folks tested with I have
confidence that if we ship the same version it should work for users".

I think we want to get away from building it ourselves and defaulting to
telling distros they need to provide it.

-- 
Doug Goldstein

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