Upcoming 1.11 release candidate

Maxiwell S. Garcia maxiwell at linux.ibm.com
Wed Dec 4 06:23:36 AEDT 2019


On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 02:22:19PM +0800, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm planning for the next release of petitboot, v1.11, for sometime next
> week, assuming all goes well. The shortlog is below, but this will
> consist of the following series that have been on the list for a while:
> 
>  - Maxim's IPMI mbox selector fixes
>  - my pb-console shell session fixes
>  - my grub2 parser updates to better support RHEL8
> 
> These are currently in the petitboot master branch (at 057dce2dad), and
> I encourage you to have a test / review of the proposed release.
> 
> Maxiwell: I've assumed that there's no specific target release for the
> UV patches, is that the case?

Yes, these patches can be applied in the upstream.

Thanks

> 
> Nayna: I also haven't yet heard back about testing the kexec file-load
> patches, is there any urgency about getting those into a release?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Jeremy  
> 
> 
> Jeremy Kerr (16):
>       pb-console: start shell as a login shell
>       pb-console: don't modify PATH unless it's empty
>       discover/grub2: 'search' set-variable defaults to root
>       discover/grub2: Use getopt for `search` argument parsing
>       discover/grub2: test for (ignored) --no-floppy argument
>       discover/grub2: Add support for UUID and label for 'search' command
>       discover/grub2: expose a struct for grub2 file references
>       discover/grub2: Add parsing code for grub2 file specifiers
>       discover/grub2: add support for grub2-style path specifiers in resources
>       discover/grub2: Allow (device)/path references in general script usage
>       discover/grub2: Add a reference from script to parser
>       discover/grub2: expose internal parse function
>       discover/grub2: make statements_execute non-static
>       discover/grub2: implement 'source' command
>       test/parser: Add test for recent RHCOS grub2 config
>       test/parser: Add RHEL8 grub config test
> 
> Maxim Polyakov (5):
>       discover/platform-powerpc: add missing mbox block selector
>       discover/platform-powerpc: limit mailbox response size
>       discover/platform-powerpc: return the actual mailbox size
>       discover/platform-powerpc: add mailbox message structure
>       discover/platform-powerpc: don't copy IANA from mbox to buffer
> 


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