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

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 at 15:14, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>   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).

I guess that's safe enough, though the very-conservative
choice would be to take just the EDK2 rebuild for 9.0.

thanks
-- PMM