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

[Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>]

nit: a slightly more telling subject could have been something like:

backport limiting the phys-bits to 46 for bug in old guest kernel

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@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:

cd pve-edk2-firmware-3.20230228; dpkg-buildpackage -S -uc -us -d
# ...
patching file OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/MemDetect.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 657 (different line endings).
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED
dpkg-source: info: the patch has fuzz which is not allowed, or is malformed
dpkg-source: info: if patch '0001-OvmfPkg-PlatformInitLib-limit-phys-bits-to-46.patch' is correctly applied by quilt, use 'quilt refresh' to update it
dpkg-source: info: if the file is present in the unpacked source, make sure it is also present in the orig tarball
dpkg-source: info: restoring quilt backup files for 0001-OvmfPkg-PlatformInitLib-limit-phys-bits-to-46.patch
dpkg-source: error: LC_ALL=C patch -t -F 0 -N -p1 -u -V never -E -b -B .pc/0001-OvmfPkg-PlatformInitLib-limit-phys-bits-to-46.patch/ --reject-file=- < pve-edk2-firmware-3.20230228/debian/patches/0001-OvmfPkg-PlatformInitLib-limit-phys-bits-to-46.patch subprocess returned exit status 1