答复: [edk2-devel] Patch List for 202008 stable tag

[gaoliming]

Laszlo:

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> [mailto:bounce+27952+64532+4905953+8761045 at groups.io] 代表 Laszlo
> Ersek
> 发送时间: 2020年8月21日 19:07
> 收件人: Gao, Liming <liming.gao at intel.com>; Leif Lindholm
> <leif at nuviainc.com>; afish at apple.com; Kinney, Michael D
> <michael.d.kinney at intel.com>; Guptha, Soumya K
> <soumya.k.guptha at intel.com>; Chang, Abner (HPS SW/FW Technologist)
> <abner.chang at hpe.com>; Vladimir Olovyannikov
> <vladimir.olovyannikov at broadcom.com>; Tom Lendacky
> <thomas.lendacky at amd.com>
> 抄送: devel at edk2.groups.io
> 主题: Re: [edk2-devel] Patch List for 202008 stable tag
> 
> On 08/20/20 13:30, Gao, Liming wrote:
> > Hi Stewards and all:
> >   I collect current patch lists in devel mail list. Those patch
contributors
> request to add them for 202008 stable tag. Because we have enter into Soft
> Feature Freeze, I want to collect your feedback for them. If any patches
are
> missing, please reply this mail to add them.
> >
> > Feature List:
> > https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/63767 [PATCH]
> > EmbeddedPkg/libfdt: Add strncmp macro to use AsciiStrnCmp [Liming] This
> patch pass code review after Soft Feature Freeze (SFF) starts. According
to SFF
> definition, it should not be merged for this stable tag. But, the patch
submitter
> says this patch is important to RISC-V community. To catch it for this
stable tag,
> Laszlo proposed the solution to defer SFF start day from 2020-08-14 to
> 2020-08-21, then hard feature freeze and release date will also defer one
> week. Any patches those pass review before new SFF start day can be
merged.
> @ Stewards, please give your comments to defer this stable tag release by
> one week.
> 
> Thank you, very nice summary.
> 
> As stated earlier, I'm OK with 1 week (or even two weeks, if needed)
> extension. I invite Andrew, Leif and Mike to comment.
> 
[Liming] I don't see any other urgent request. I think it is enough to defer
1 week for this stable tag.
So far, there is objection for this defer. I will send the announcement
mail. 

> >
> > https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/63348 [PATCH v5 1/1]
> > ShellPkg/DynamicCommand: add HttpDynamicCommand [Liming] This
> patch has collected the review comment. New version will be sent. I have
no
> information how important it is. @Vladimir, does this patch must catch
this
> stable tag? If yes, can you give the reason?
> 
> This is a feature addition. While it's a super useful feature, it needs to
mature
> (mainly from the coding style perspective, as I gather).
> Posting of new versions and review are on-going.
> 
> Most likely material for the next stable tag. In case we extend the
deadlines,
> and Maciej and the ShellPkg maintainers approve one of the upcoming
> versions until the new SFF, then yes, we can merge that too.
> 
[Liming] So, this is not urgent. Let's defer it to next stable tag. 

Thanks
Liming

> > Bug List:
> > https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/64383 [PATCH 1/1]
> > UefiCpuPkg/MpInitLib: Always initialize the DoDecrement variable
[Liming]
> This patch has collected the review comment. New version will be sent.
> 
> This is a bugfix. Certainly a build fix on CLANGPDB. I tried to do some
> (lightweight) analysis to see whether the bug is a functional one as well
(i.e.
> whether the bad code path that CLANG warns about can actually occur in
> practice), but in the end I didn't want to spend much time on it, as the
build
> breakage needs to be fixed anyway.
> 
> So, this patch (more precisely, v2 of this patch) would even qualify
during the
> hard feature freeze (as it's clearly a bugfix).
> 
> >
> > https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/50406 [PATCH 1/1]
> > MdePkg/Include: Add missing definitions of SMBIOS type 42h in SmBios.h
> [Liming] This patch passed review early. But, it is not merged. I will
merge it.
> 
> Right, it was approved on 2019-Nov-18. If it still applies cleanly, it
should be
> merged, before we enter the Hard Feature Freeze.
> 
> Well... now that I'm writing this, we have already entered the HFF (as
planned
> originally) and the patch doesn't seem to be upstream yet. So unless we
> extend, I don't think this patch qualifies.
> 
> (On the other hand -- it seems like we really should extend.)
> 
> Thanks!
> Laszlo
> 
> 
> 




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