Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [GIT PULL for qemu-pseries] pseries: Update SLOF firmware image

[Thomas Huth]

On 12.07.2018 03:01, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 08:53:05PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:26:19 +1000
>> David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 05:14:53PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 16:42:48 +1000
>>>> David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 12:22:44PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:  
>>>>>> On Mon,  2 Jul 2018 16:26:44 +1000
>>>>>> Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>> The following changes since commit 
>>>>>>> edb1fb337f65f82fe32b989c4f018efe85c1dddb:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   pseries: Update SLOF firmware image (2018-07-02 16:21:30 +1000)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> are available in the git repository at:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   address@hidden:aik/qemu.git tags/qemu-slof-20180702
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> for you to fetch changes up to edb1fb337f65f82fe32b989c4f018efe85c1dddb:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   pseries: Update SLOF firmware image (2018-07-02 16:21:30 +1000)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just missed a couple of gcc 8.1 fixes and thought I can still squeeze
>>>>>>> them before the 3.0  soft freeze.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *** Note: this is not for master, this is for pseries    
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not good for 3.1 either?    
>>>>>
>>>>> Ugh.. somehow I missed this SLOF update request, and now we're in 3.0
>>>>> hard freeze.
>>>>>
>>>>> How bad are the bugs this SLOF update fixes?  
>>>>
>>>> These only fix gcc 8.1 warnings and runtime errors => not really
>>>> bugfixes so it is not a big deal if they miss 3.0.  
>>>
>>> Ok, well, if you want to resend the update, I'll queue it for 3.1.
>>
>>
>> It is still on github, why resend?
> 
> Good point, done.

Won't there be another update in the 3.1 time frame? If yes, this sounds
like wasted space in the repository to me (the firmware blobs are rather
big, and there are no new features in that binary, just fixes for
compiling with GCC 8 ... and people who want to compile SLOF on their
own can use the sources from aik's git tree, too).

 Thomas

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