Enforce in-order execution of these steps even on not sequentially
consistent architectures, as discussed in [1]. These changes should be
unnecessary on x86 (the only architecture OVMF currently supports), but
they align the OVMF virtio code with the virtio specification and could be
necessary for future OVMF ports.
[1] http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/virtualization/2013-June/024547.html
Suggested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2@14601 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524
These changes were needed in addition to the silence.patch
that Laszlo posted on May 28.
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2@14420 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524
These were found with the gcc-4.4 option "-Wconversion" after Jordan
reported the build failure under Visual Studio. The patch was originally
posted to edk2-devel as "silence.patch":
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.tianocore.devel/2804/focus=2972
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2@14419 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524
Laszlo Ersek
Jordan Justen