[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH edk2-firmware] add patch to work around older guest kernel bug

[Fiona Ebner]

Am 06.06.23 um 16:26 schrieb Thomas Lamprecht:
> 
> nit: a slightly more telling subject could have been something like:
> 
> backport limiting the phys-bits to 46 for bug in old guest kernel

Yes, sorry. My commit title was too generic.

> Am 05/06/2023 um 09:43 schrieb Fiona Ebner:
>> by limiting the phys-bits to 46 instead of 47. On Ubuntu 18.04 with
>> kernel 4.15, using 47 leads to a strange issue where initialization of
>> VirtIO devices would fail.
>>
>> Reported in the community forum:
>> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/127410/
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>
>> ---
>>  ...latformInitLib-limit-phys-bits-to-46.patch | 46 +++++++++++++++++++
>>  debian/patches/series                         |  1 +
>>  2 files changed, 47 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 debian/patches/0001-OvmfPkg-PlatformInitLib-limit-phys-bits-to-46.patch
>>
>>
> 
> applied, but fixed line endings of patch, edk2 (sadly) uses Windows-Style \r\n,
> but the patch only got \n, so failed building a DSC:
> 

Hmm, it's correct in my repository and in the formatted patch, but not
here in the mail anymore. Do I need to specify something special with
git send-email?