Re: [edk2] [edk2-buildtools] Sync BaseTools Trunk (version r2598) to EDKII main trunk

2013-08-22 Thread Gao, Liming
Oliver: This round sync is done at EDKII r14591. And, I have got your request. Once your fix is done, please let me know. I will evaluate its quality and do new sync. Besides, for your change to GenFw, do you expect who will response to this patch? Jordan or others? Thanks Liming -

Re: [edk2] [edk2-buildtools] Sync BaseTools Trunk (version r2598) to EDKII main trunk

2013-08-22 Thread Cohen, Eugene
It seems like the sync system is designed to provide stability by limiting day-to-day tools turmoil to edk2 trunk. But without a way to validate all toolchains (including ARM, XCode, etc) then I don' t think the process is really all that helpful as Olivier describes. I think this issue points

Re: [edk2] [edk2-buildtools] Sync BaseTools Trunk (version r2598) to EDKII main trunk

2013-08-22 Thread Olivier Martin
Liming, I understand the benefit to get a stable BaseTools in EDK2. And it looks your level of validation is high as the BaseTools sync was announced a week ago and it has not been pushed yet. But if when you will sync the BaseTools my firmware does not work anymore (it has been the case in the p

Re: [edk2] [edk2-buildtools] Sync BaseTools Trunk (version r2598) to EDKII main trunk

2013-08-21 Thread Andrew Fish
On Aug 21, 2013, at 9:24 PM, "Gao, Liming" wrote: > Andrew: > The request doesn't limit @intel.com. If you or others have sync request, > you can raise it me. We will follow up to evaluate BaseTools trunk quality. > The baseline of sync requirement is that BaseTools trunk has no regression >

Re: [edk2] [edk2-buildtools] Sync BaseTools Trunk (version r2598) to EDKII main trunk

2013-08-21 Thread Gao, Liming
Andrew: The request doesn't limit @intel.com. If you or others have sync request, you can raise it me. We will follow up to evaluate BaseTools trunk quality. The baseline of sync requirement is that BaseTools trunk has no regression issue. Now, this version BaseTools trunk (r2599) has passe

Re: [edk2] [edk2-buildtools] Sync BaseTools Trunk (version r2598) to EDKII main trunk

2013-08-21 Thread Andrew Fish
On Aug 21, 2013, at 1:17 AM, "Gao, Liming" wrote: > Andrew and Martin: > I own BaseToolsSync. The sync depends on the request, no regular plan. If > you have the request, you can raise it to me. Before sync, I need make sure > BaseTools Trunk has no regression issue. > But it seems like t

Re: [edk2] [edk2-buildtools] Sync BaseTools Trunk (version r2598) to EDKII main trunk

2013-08-21 Thread Gao, Liming
Andrew and Martin: I own BaseToolsSync. The sync depends on the request, no regular plan. If you have the request, you can raise it to me. Before sync, I need make sure BaseTools Trunk has no regression issue. One main point to separate BaseTools project is to make sure EDKII BaseTools is

Re: [edk2] [edk2-buildtools] Sync BaseTools Trunk (version r2598) to EDKII main trunk

2013-08-20 Thread Andrew Fish
On Aug 20, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Jordan Justen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Andrew Fish wrote: >> On Aug 20, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Jordan Justen wrote: >>> On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 09:45 -0700, Andrew Fish wrote: The current BaseTools process does not seem to work for any one who d

Re: [edk2] [edk2-buildtools] Sync BaseTools Trunk (version r2598) to EDKII main trunk

2013-08-20 Thread Jordan Justen
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Andrew Fish wrote: > On Aug 20, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Jordan Justen wrote: >> On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 09:45 -0700, Andrew Fish wrote: >>> The current BaseTools process does not seem to work for any one >>> who does not have a @intel.com email address, and that seems lik

Re: [edk2] [edk2-buildtools] Sync BaseTools Trunk (version r2598) to EDKII main trunk

2013-08-20 Thread Andrew Fish
On Aug 20, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Jordan Justen wrote: > On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 09:45 -0700, Andrew Fish wrote: >> The current BaseTools process does not seem to work for any one >> who does not have a @intel.com email address, and that seems like >> a broken thing for an open source project. > > Wha

Re: [edk2] [edk2-buildtools] Sync BaseTools Trunk (version r2598) to EDKII main trunk

2013-08-20 Thread Jordan Justen
On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 09:45 -0700, Andrew Fish wrote: > The current BaseTools process does not seem to work for any one > who does not have a @intel.com email address, and that seems like > a broken thing for an open source project. What difference does the @intel.com email address make with regar

Re: [edk2] [edk2-buildtools] Sync BaseTools Trunk (version r2598) to EDKII main trunk

2013-08-20 Thread Andrew Fish
Olivier, In the early days of edk2 there was a lot of thrash on the tools and having a separate project to work on the tools and only pushed released versions up kind of made sense back then. Now the more common changes are going to be adding compiler support, or making minor changes to the t