Hi, I have a mostly-ready-for-posting patch set for $SUBJECT. My question is what QEMU release I should be targeting with it.
The Soft Feature Freeze for 4.0 is on 2019-03-12. Here's why that's a bit inconvenient for me. The upcoming EDK2 stable release is edk2-stable201903, and it is planned for... today. https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning#edk2-stable201903-tag-planning But, it's being blocked (at least one CVE fix still needs merging, but there could be something else too). I don't know what that will mean for the actual tag date. Maybe next Monday (the 11th)? In my series, I'd like to advance QEMU's roms/edk2 submodule to this new release. But that might leave us with 1 day before the QEMU 4.0 Soft Feature Freeze (see above), i.e., for me to post the series, and for a submaintainer to send a pullreq with it. That's a bit too tight. I'm not in a mortal rush to get this into 4.0, but the next release cycles (in three months, approximately?) might align similarly, between edk2 and QEMU. It would be best to avoid QEMU carrying edk2 platform firmware that is at all times at least three months old. The main reason is that CVEs tend to exist, for both edk2 proper, and for the specific OpenSSL release that is bundled with the given edk2 stable tag. And edk2 doesn't yet have stable *branches*. Should we try to squeeze my set into 4.0 (possibly moving the Soft Feature Freeze), or just aim for 4.1? Also, who'd be the maintainer to queue my set? I mostly thought of Gerd, due to his work on iPXE and SeaBIOS. Here's the current diffstat: Makefile | 17 +- pc-bios/README | 11 + pc-bios/descriptors/50-edk2-i386-secure.json | 34 +++ pc-bios/descriptors/50-edk2-x86_64-secure.json | 35 +++ pc-bios/descriptors/60-edk2-aarch64.json | 31 +++ pc-bios/descriptors/60-edk2-arm.json | 31 +++ pc-bios/descriptors/60-edk2-i386.json | 33 +++ pc-bios/descriptors/60-edk2-x86_64.json | 34 +++ pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd | Bin 0 -> 67108864 bytes pc-bios/edk2-arm-code.fd | Bin 0 -> 67108864 bytes pc-bios/edk2-arm-vars.fd | Bin 0 -> 67108864 bytes pc-bios/edk2-i386-code.fd | Bin 0 -> 3653632 bytes pc-bios/edk2-i386-secure-code.fd | Bin 0 -> 3653632 bytes pc-bios/edk2-i386-vars.fd | Bin 0 -> 540672 bytes pc-bios/edk2-licenses.txt | 209 +++++++++++++++ pc-bios/edk2-x86_64-code.fd | Bin 0 -> 3653632 bytes pc-bios/edk2-x86_64-secure-code.fd | Bin 0 -> 3653632 bytes roms/Makefile | 9 +- roms/Makefile.edk2 | 134 ++++++++++ roms/edk2-build.sh | 52 ++++ roms/edk2-funcs.sh | 265 ++++++++++++++++++++ tests/uefi-test-tools/build.sh | 97 +------ 22 files changed, 898 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-) Thanks, Laszlo