On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 04:41:38PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 02/20/17 15:57, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:15:32 -0800 > > b...@skyportsystems.com wrote: > > > >> From: Ben Warren <b...@skyportsystems.com> > >> > >> This patch set adds support for passing a GUID to Windows guests. It is a > >> re-implementation of previous patch sets written by Igor Mammedov et al, > >> but > >> this time passing the GUID data as a fw_cfg blob. > >> > >> This patch set has dependencies on new guest functionality, in particular > >> the > >> support for a new linker-loader command and the ability to write back data > >> to QEMU over a DMA link. Work is in flight in both SeaBIOS and OVMF to > >> support this. > >> > >> v7->v8: > >> - Rebased to top of tree. > >> - Fixed two small bugs in "write pointer" function > >> - minor re-ordering of data in patches > >> - Fixed unit test by adding delays/retries to reading RSDP table > > Michael, > > > > series looks good for merging. > > Patch > > [PATCH v8 7/8] tests: Add unit tests for the VM Generation ID feature > > needs updated seabios blob to make 'make check' happy > > so we probably should merge/update seabios first > > [PATCH v5 0/5] QEMU: Add capability to write back fw_cfg address to QEMU > > > > CCing Gerd and Kevin. > > > > That's sort of a circular dependency, as Kevin generally prefers to > merge SeaBIOS patches once the underlying QEMU code has been committed :) > > For a total ordering, all QEMU patches except v8 7/8 could be merged in > QEMU, then the v5 SeaBIOS patches could be merged, then Gerd could > refresh the bundled SeaBIOS binaries, then QEMU patch v8 7/8 could be > merged. > > I'm not actually suggesting that though, given that the soft freeze is > in about a week. > > Kevin, can you please make an exception this time and merge the SeaBIOS > patches ahead of the QEMU patches?
Yes. Gerd - are you planning to backport this series to the stable branch? -Kevin