Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] about ipxe version update

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> When we tried the latest ipxe code, it's ok.
> By git bisect, I found the patch of ipxe.git solved this problem.
> 
> # git show 9f0b7f428af04d0c5ddda78f9b034625f2f91831
> Author: Michael Brown <address@hidden>
> Date:   Sun Jun 1 19:24:16 2014 +0100

> I noticed that the latest ipxe version in qemu is 2014.5.15, and was included
> in Qemu-2.1 release version.
> 
> commit d880b28cef4a8b4bc489a5caec201d019b9c0add
> Author: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
> Date:   Thu May 15 14:23:59 2014 +0200
> 
>     ipxe: update to current git
>     
>     Now that ipxe has separate settings for load / boot banner timeouts
>     re-enable the boot banner while keeping the load banner turned off,
>     so we don't add a delay to non-pxe boots.
> 
> Does we have a plan to update ipxe version in QEMU? Thanks.

Picking up a bugfix is a pretty good reason to update ...

> I know QEMU 2.2 will be released tomorrow, December 5th.
> Maybe we can't catch up with that.

... but not one day before the release.  We can do the update early in
2.3 though, and maybe cherry-pick for 2.2.1 after it got some testing.

cheers,
  Gerd