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

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 07:01:34 +0200
Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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).


I compiled the blob with gcc 8.1 and if something goes wrong I'd rather
know this earlier than later - this my motivation, not the fixes
themselves.



--
Alexey

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