Re: [PULL 00/10] EDK2 firmware: Adopt the edk2-stable202008 release

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 08:19, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The following changes since commit 3d9f371b01067d9cec4d592920013012119397c8:
>
>   Merge remote-tracking branch 
> 'remotes/stsquad/tags/pull-testing-fixes-100920-1' into staging (2020-09-12 
> 22:54:32 +0100)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
>   https://gitlab.com/philmd/qemu.git tags/edk2-next-20200914
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 8fa3b7029f3c9f901cd6bb01004114c003432d9b:
>
>   tests: acpi: update "virt/SSDT.memhp" for edk2-stable202008 (2020-09-13 
> 23:03:15 +0200)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> EDK2 firmware: Adopt the edk2-stable202008 release
>
> Note from Laszlo Ersek [1] while addressing LP#1852196 [2]:
>
> Consume the following upstream edk2 releases:
>
>   https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases/tag/edk2-stable201908
>   https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases/tag/edk2-stable201911
>   https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases/tag/edk2-stable202002
>   https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases/tag/edk2-stable202005
>   https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases/tag/edk2-stable202008
>
> Worth mentioning (in random order):
>
> - various CVE fixes (see [2] and shortlog)
> - OpenSSL-1.1.1g
> - UEFI HTTPS Boot for ARM/AARCH64
> - TPM2 for ARM/AARCH64
> - VCPU hotplug with SMI
> - support for Linux v5.7+ initrd and mixed mode loading
> - Fusion-MPT SCSI driver in OVMF
> - VMware PVSCSI driver in OVMF
> - PXEv4 / PXEv6 boot possible to disable on the QEMU command line
> - SEV-ES support
>
> The IA32 and X64 binaries are now smaller -- the reason is that Laszlo
> built them with DevToolSet 9 (gcc-9) on RHEL7, and so this is the first
> time they've undergone LTO (with the GCC5 edk2 toolchain settings).
>
> CI jobs results:
>   https://gitlab.com/philmd/qemu/-/pipelines/189394120
>   https://travis-ci.org/github/philmd/qemu/builds/726842542
>   https://app.shippable.com/github/philmd/qemu/runs/866/summary/console
>
> [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg738173.html
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1852196


Applied, thanks.

Please update the changelog at https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/5.2
for any user-visible changes.

-- PMM