efibootguard v0.8

[chomb...@gmail.com]

Hi Jan / maintainers,

Our last release tag is about a year old now.

While many of us just point their builds to HEAD, it may be good to get v0.8 out in a near future since the current HEAD is evidently stable and already contains some good improvements over v0.7

And I must confess that I am not a big fan of build recipes carrying a version of the form 0.7+git20210105 hence this e-mail ;)

What do you think?

Cedric

[Jan Kiszka]

Yeah, it's kind of overdue. The original plan was to fix the iTCO mess
(incorrect timeout for some revisions, possibly also in upstream
kernels) before doing that release. But it seems no one finds the time
for this, me included...

Jan

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Siemens AG, T RDA IOT
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

[Jan Kiszka]

Just to record this also publicly: Something is fishy between

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=1fccb73011ea8a5fa0c6d357c33fa29c695139ea

and

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=fc61e83a29308601e6e8a0759e24fc8fe2122692

Paolo was on the right track, at least for some revisions. The revert
restored the problem for them. And we share this in EBG. We would need
someone with access to both a v2 and v4/5 device in order to cross-check
and finally resolve this.