[SeaBIOS] [PATCH for-1.10-stable] drop "etc/boot-cpus" fw_cfg file and reuse legacy QEMU_CFG_NB_CPUS
Igor Mammedov
imammedo at redhat.com
Mon Nov 21 11:56:35 CET 2016
On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 11:36:21 +0100
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:
> On So, 2016-11-13 at 23:05 -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 04:35:15PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > > since QEMU_CFG_NB_CPUS not going away anytime soon
> > > and serves the same purpose as just added "etc/boot-cpus" fw_cfg
> > > drop support for "etc/boot-cpus" while this code is not
> > > in use yet (i.e. QEMU with "etc/boot-cpus" hasn't been released)
> > > and reuse QEMU_CFG_NB_CPUS instead of it.
> >
> > I'm okay with this change. I'd like to get Gerd's comments as well
> > though as the patch is targeted for a stable branch.
>
> Looks good to me too. I should have remembered this before as I
> actually added QEMU_CFG_NB_CPUS support to coreboot ...
>
> Process as usual: commit to qemu first, then seabios (master goes first,
> then cherry-pick into stable), then update seabios binaries in qemu.
>
> cheers,
> Gerd
>
QEMU part has been merged to master:
e3cadac07 pc: fix FW_CFG_NB_CPUS to account for -device added CPUs
Gerd,
Could you take care about applying this patch to SeaBIOS (+stable)
and updating SeaBIOS blob and QEMU?
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