Re: [PATCH] edk2: get version + date from git submodule

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> > +               --version-override "$(EDK2_STABLE)-for-qemu" \
> > +               --release-date "$(EDK2_DATE)" \
> 
> Hi -- I've just noticed that we never made this change to
> automate the date/version for EDK2 ROMs, but we also never
> updated the version by hand. So at the moment we ship an
> EDK2 blob that wrongly claims to be an older version.
> See this bug report by a user:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2233
> 
> Is it possible to fix this for 9.0?

I've posted v2 (series) a while back, no feedback so far.

https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20240327102448.61877-1-kraxel@redhat.com/

If there are no objections I can do a PR for these three patches plus an
edk2 binary rebuild (which shouldn't change anything but the version
string).

take care,
  Gerd