Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/5] hvmloader: add knob for fixed VGABIOS date string

2015-03-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 09:46 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > Is it expected that they should all be settable independently? Or would > > one global setting be sufficient? > > A single timestamp would be nice, sure. > > > If so then a single variable which can

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/5] hvmloader: add knob for fixed VGABIOS date string

2015-03-25 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Mar 24, Ian Campbell wrote: > Is it expected that they should all be settable independently? Or would > one global setting be sufficient? A single timestamp would be nice, sure. > If so then a single variable which can be set to something accepted by > date -d which could be formatted in

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/5] hvmloader: add knob for fixed VGABIOS date string

2015-03-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 18:24 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > To allow reproducible builds of hvmloader introduce a make variable > VGABIOS_REL_DATE="dd Mon " to provide a fixed date string. Without > this change the hvmloader binary changes with every rebuild. > > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering > Cc:

[Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/5] hvmloader: add knob for fixed VGABIOS date string

2015-03-20 Thread Olaf Hering
To allow reproducible builds of hvmloader introduce a make variable VGABIOS_REL_DATE="dd Mon " to provide a fixed date string. Without this change the hvmloader binary changes with every rebuild. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering Cc: Ian Jackson Cc: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Ian Campbell Cc: Wei Liu