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From: "joeyli via groups.io" <jlee=suse.com@groups.io>
To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	Gao@linux-l9pv.suse, Liming <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>,
	Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Cc: devel@edk2.groups.io, joeyli.kernel@gmail.com,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>,
	Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>,
	Pawel Polawski <ppolawsk@redhat.com>,
	Oliver Steffen <osteffen@redhat.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+tianocore@kernel.org>,
	ruifeng.gao@intel.com
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH] OvmfPkg/SmbiosPlatformDxe: tweak fallback release date again
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 16:02:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240207080252.GA21608@linux-l9pv.suse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240207075549.GZ21608@linux-l9pv.suse>

On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 03:55:49PM +0800, joeyli wrote:
> Hi Laszlo,
> 
> First, thanks for your review!
> 
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 05:41:25PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> > On 2/4/24 10:29, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> > > In case PcdFirmwareReleaseDateString is not set use a valid date
> > > as fallback. But the default valid date can _NOT_ pass the Microsoft
> > > SVVP test "Check SMBIOS Table Specific Requirements". The test emitted
> > > the error message:
> > > 
> > > BIOS Release Date string is unexpected length: 8. This string must be in
> > > MM/DD/YYYY format. No other format is allowed and no additional information
> > > may be included. See field description in the SMBIOS specification.
> > > 
> > > Base on SMBIOS spec v3.7.0:
> > > 
> > > 08h     2.0+    BIOS Release Date       BYTE    STRING
> > > String number of the BIOS release date. The date
> > > string, if supplied, is in either mm/dd/yy or
> > > mm/dd/yyyy format. If the year portion of the string
> > > is two digits, the year is assumed to be 19yy.
> > > NOTE: The mm/dd/yyyy format is required for SMBIOS
> > > version 2.3 and later.
> > > 
> > > So, let's tweek the fallback release date again.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: a0f9628705e3 ("OvmfPkg/SmbiosPlatformDxe: tweak fallback release date") [edk2-stable202305~327]
> > > Signed-off-by: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com>
> > > ---
> > >  OvmfPkg/SmbiosPlatformDxe/SmbiosPlatformDxe.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/OvmfPkg/SmbiosPlatformDxe/SmbiosPlatformDxe.c b/OvmfPkg/SmbiosPlatformDxe/SmbiosPlatformDxe.c
> > > index 0ca3776045..e929da6b81 100644
> > > --- a/OvmfPkg/SmbiosPlatformDxe/SmbiosPlatformDxe.c
> > > +++ b/OvmfPkg/SmbiosPlatformDxe/SmbiosPlatformDxe.c
> > > @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ InstallAllStructures (
> > >      DateStr = (CHAR16 *)FixedPcdGetPtr (PcdFirmwareReleaseDateString);
> > >      DateLen = StrLen (DateStr);
> > >      if (DateLen < 3) {
> > > -      DateStr = L"2/2/2022";
> > > +      DateStr = L"02/02/2022";
> > >        DateLen = StrLen (DateStr);
> > >      }
> > >  
> > 
> > Are you proposing this as an important (but low risk) bugfix that might
> > qualify for the freeze(s)? If so, please loop in Liming and Mike.
> >
> 
> hm... What does freeze mean? 
>

ah... You mean soft feature freeze for edk2-stable202402. 

Hi Liming, Michael,

This change is important but low risk. Could you please consider to add it
to edk2-stable202402 release?

Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee


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  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-07  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-04  9:29 [edk2-devel] [PATCH] OvmfPkg/SmbiosPlatformDxe: tweak fallback release date again Lee, Chun-Yi
2024-02-04  9:38 ` joeyli via groups.io
2024-02-05  7:31 ` Laszlo Ersek
2024-02-05 16:41 ` Laszlo Ersek
2024-02-07  7:55   ` joeyli via groups.io
2024-02-07  8:02     ` joeyli via groups.io [this message]
     [not found]     ` <17B185EB8F3EA51B.19081@groups.io>
2024-03-04 11:37       ` joeyli via groups.io
2024-03-05  8:53         ` Laszlo Ersek
2024-03-07  9:04           ` joeyli via groups.io
2024-03-07 11:23             ` Laszlo Ersek
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2024-02-02 16:32 Lee, Chun-Yi
2024-02-04  9:35 ` joeyli via groups.io

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