Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL for-2.4 0/7] update ipxe roms, fix efi support

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 21/07/2015 15:57, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 21 July 2015 at 14:47, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 21/07/2015 15:27, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>>> On 21/07/2015 10:21, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The ipxe changes are pushed to git://git.kraxel.org/ipxe 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (branch qemu,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tag qemu-2.4).  They should be mirrored to 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> git://git.qemu.org/ipxe.git
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> before merging this pull request.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Is this supposed to happen automatically, or does somebody
>>>>>>>>>>> need to manually do something for that to happen?
>>>>>>> I need an answer to this question or this pull will miss rc2 :-(
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like it needs to be done manually.
>>> I think we're mirroring git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git, so the ipxe
>>> changes need to be merged into that repo first.
>>>
>>> Gerd, have you submitted those to the ipxe upstream?
>>
>> Multiple times in the last six months.
> 
> So is the proposal here that we ship a non-upstream IPXE?
> That was less than entirely clear from the pull request...

Well, it did say "This pull finally fixes the efi boot support.  ipxe is
updated to the latest master, two non-upstream commits needed to make
efi work are added on top, and the build process is tweaked a bit".

Paolo