On 02/20/17 16:45, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > 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.
Thank you! Ben, Igor or Michael -- can one of you please add a paragraph on VMGENID to <http://wiki.qemu-project.org/ChangeLog/2.9>, later on? (Ben, if you don't have an account yet, I think Stefan (CC'd) can give you one.) Thanks! Laszlo > > Gerd - are you planning to backport this series to the stable branch? > > -Kevin >