On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 at 11:19, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 at 10:43, David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 09:52:54AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 at 04:41, David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > The following changes since commit > > > > 1bdc319ab5d289ce6b822e06fb2b13666fd9278e: > > > > > > > > Update version for v4.2.0-rc4 release (2019-12-03 17:56:30 +0000) > > > > > > > > are available in the Git repository at: > > > > > > > > git://github.com/dgibson/qemu.git tags/ppc-for-4.2-20191206 > > > > > > > > for you to fetch changes up to d887a8cfc083bcf3856f9f42352989f3624e0cae: > > > > > > > > pseries: Update SLOF firmware image (2019-12-06 15:33:23 +1100) > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ppc patch queue 2019-12-06 > > > > > > > > This is a last minute pull request for ppc-for-4.2. I know it's very > > > > late in freeze, but this does fix a regression: a bad interaction > > > > between the new qemu and SLOF device tree construction code means that > > > > SLOF will crash if PCI to PCI bridges are included in the system. > > > > > > I really really really don't want to do an rc5. This would > > > have to be "everybody using ppc gets crashes" for me to > > > really want to put it in at this point... > > > > Yeah, alright. I'll send it to Mike for a 4.2.1. > > Paolo says he has something that needs to go into rc5, so maybe > we can take this too. How confident are you that the change is > small and safe? It's a bit hard to tell with updates to > firmware binaries.
...I just read the commit message for the firmware blob update. That is way too many random changes to go into rc5. I'd have taken a firmware blob update that was just "one change, fixing this specific bug", but not one which has all that other stuff too. thanks -- PMM
