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

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 09/14/20 14:09, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 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.

Thank you Phil and Peter, I've added a short note to
<https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/5.2#Miscellaneous>.

Laszlo