Re: [Xen-devel] Backports to stable trees

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 27.09.18 at 19:54, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 27/09/18 15:36, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please can the following patches be considered for stable.
>>
>> 18cd4997d26b - x86/efi: move the logic to detect PE build support
>> 93249f7fc17c - x86/efi: split compiler vs linker support
>>
>> CentOS and RHEL 7.x GCC's are capable of compiling xen.gz with EFI
>> support, but LD doesn't have i386pep support.  Without a bodge to the
>> build system (and several downstreams have borrowed by XenServer bodge),
>> making a EFI-capable xen.gz isn't possible with the default toolchain.
>>
>> These patches resolve the issue.
> 
> In addition, it looks like:
> 
> 328ca55b7bd4 - x86/shutdown: use ACPI reboot method for Dell PowerEdge R540
> 7626edeaca97 - x86/hvm/emulate: make sure rep I/O emulation does not
> cross GFN boundaries

Hmm, odd - I had certainly meant to (and actually thought I did
already) apply the latter. I'll queue up all of the above (afaict
the former two are relevant only back to 4.9).

Jan



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