Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 0/8] Add support for VM Generation ID

[Kevin O'Connor]

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
> > address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Ben Warren <address@hidden>
> >>
> >> 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.

Gerd - are you planning to backport this series to the stable branch?

-Kevin