Re: [edk2-devel] Hard Feature Freeze starts now for edk2-stable201905

["Liming Gao" <liming.gao@intel.com>]

Laszlo:
  I agree this is a real functional bug fix. I am OK to add it for edk2-stable201905.

Thanks
Liming
> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io [mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io] On Behalf Of Laszlo Ersek
> Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 8:29 PM
> To: Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>; devel@edk2.groups.io
> Cc: leif.lindholm@linaro.org; afish@apple.com; Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
> <philmd@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] Hard Feature Freeze starts now for edk2-stable201905
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 06/03/19 06:02, Gao, Liming wrote:
> > Hi, all
> >   Openssl1.1.1 update has been resolved. So, we enter into Hard Feature Freeze phase until edk2-stable201905 tag is created at
> 2019-06-06. In this phase, there is no feature to be pushed. The bug fix is still allowed. Below is the updated edk2-stable201905 tag
> planning.
> >
> > Date (00:00:00 UTC-8) Description
> > 2018-03-08 (12PM) Beginning of development
> > 2019-05-17 Soft Feature Freeze
> > 2019-06-03 Hard Feature Freeze
> > 2019-06-06 Release
> 
> I'd like to push the series for
> <https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1859>. It's a regression
> fix.
> 
> The series -- linked from comment 1 on the bug -- was reviewed on 29 May
> 2019:
> 
> http://mid.mail-archive.com/20190529151209.17503-1-lersek@redhat.com
> https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/41624
> 
> Normally I'd just push this series, but Mike mentioned last time that I
> needed to show "criticality". I think the regression has fairly
> impactful symptoms; please see comment 2 on the bug.
> 
> I plan to advance the ArmVirtQemu and OVMF firmware binaries that are to
> be bundled with QEMU 4.1 to edk2-stable201905, and fixing this
> regression would be helpful. (Otherwise QEMU 4.1 will stick with the
> currently bundled edk2-stable201903 version.)
> 
> Thanks!
> Laszlo
> 
>