Hi Cédric

> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] pc-bios: Update vbootrom image to commit
> 1c8e9510b22c
> 
> Hello Jamin,
> 
> On 1/16/26 02:20, Jamin Lin wrote:
> >> From: Cédric Le Goater <[email protected]>
> >> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2026 12:21 AM
> >> To: Nabih Estefan <[email protected]>; Jamin Lin
> >> <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Troy Lee
> >> <[email protected]>; [email protected];
> [email protected]
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] pc-bios: Update vbootrom image to commit
> >> 1c8e9510b22c
> >>
> >> hmm, I didn't receive the initial email.
> >>
> >
> > Cédric,
> >
> > I used the following command to generate a patch to update the pre-built
> vbootrom images:
> >
> > git format-patch -o ../v1-patch HEAD~1
> >
> > However, when I ran get_maintainer.pl, it could not find any maintainers and
> printed the following message:
> >
> > ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f
> > ../v1-patch/v1-0001-pc-bios-Update-vbootrom-image-to-commit-1c8e9510b.
> > patch
> > get_maintainer.pl: No maintainers found, printing recent contributors.
> > get_maintainer.pl: Do not blindly cc: them on patches!  Use common sense.
> 
> Weird. MAINTAINERS has :
> 
>    Nuvoton NPCM7xx
>    ...
>    F: pc-bios/npcm7xx_bootrom.bin
>    F: pc-bios/npcm8xx_bootrom.bin
>    F: roms/vbootrom
> 
> We do lack a MAINTAINERS entry for Aspeed :
> 
>    F: pc-bios/ast27x0_bootrom.bin
> 
> Can you please send an update ?
> 
> 
> >
> >
> fatal: ../v1-patch/v1-0001-pc-bios-Update-vbootrom-image-to-commit-1c8e95
> 10b.patch:
> '../v1-patch/v1-0001-pc-bios-Update-vbootrom-image-to-commit-1c8e9510b.p
> atch' is outside repository at
> '/home/jamin_lin/upstream/qemu/vbootrom/qemu'
> > [email protected] (open list:All patches CC here)
> >
> > As a result, only the mailing list was suggested:
> > Eventually, I sent the patch using the following command
> >
> > git send-email -cc [email protected] -cc
> > [email protected] -cc --to [email protected] --to
> > [email protected] --to [email protected] ../v1-patch/*.patch
> > --no-smtp-auth --smtp-domain=mail.aspeedtech.com
> 
> Looks correct.
> 
> I hope my provider OVH is not silently dropping email :/ The same thing
> happened with an email from Kane. Was any email returned to you ?
> 
> > It seems that I included you in the --to list. Do I need to resend the 
> > patch?
> 
> You do need to resend for another reason : roms/vbootrom needs an update
> too.
> 
> Also, for updates with large binaries, for FW updates typically, we prefer
> subsystem PRs :
> 
> See an example for a SLOF update from Thomas :
> 
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]
> om/
> 
> Some docs here :
> 
>    https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/submitting-a-pull-request.html
> 
> Ping me if you need help setting up your environment,
> 

This is my first time submitting a pull request.
Please let me know if there is anything incorrect.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/qemu-devel/patch/[email protected]/
 

Thanks-Jamin

> Thanks,
> 
> C.
> 

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