* EFI guest firmware for xen-ia64: where to put the sources ?
@ 2007-02-13 10:28 Tristan Gingold
2007-02-13 21:23 ` EFI guest firmware for xen-ia64: where to put thesources ? Ian Pratt
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From: Tristan Gingold @ 2007-02-13 10:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Xen-devel; +Cc: Xen-ia64-devel
Hi,
until recently, the hvm guest firmware for xen-ia64 was a private binary
file owned and delivered by Intel.
I have written an open-source implementation based on tianocore.org.
The ia64 firmware is roughly speaking EFI. I have also ported tianocore to
Qemu/x86. It shouldn't be hard to port it to x86.
Because the sources are big (at least 40MB) and the buildery is not easy
(build tools are java-based), I don't think it should be included in the
Xen repository like the x86 firmware.
I'd propose to create a new mercurial tree. Are there better ideas ?
Tristan.
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* RE: EFI guest firmware for xen-ia64: where to put thesources ?
2007-02-13 10:28 EFI guest firmware for xen-ia64: where to put the sources ? Tristan Gingold
@ 2007-02-13 21:23 ` Ian Pratt
2007-02-13 21:34 ` Alex Williamson
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From: Ian Pratt @ 2007-02-13 21:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tristan Gingold, Xen-devel; +Cc: James Bulpin, Xen-ia64-devel
> until recently, the hvm guest firmware for xen-ia64 was a private
binary
> file owned and delivered by Intel.
>
> I have written an open-source implementation based on tianocore.org.
>
> The ia64 firmware is roughly speaking EFI. I have also ported
tianocore to
> Qemu/x86. It shouldn't be hard to port it to x86.
>
> Because the sources are big (at least 40MB) and the buildery is not
easy
> (build tools are java-based), I don't think it should be included in
the
> Xen repository like the x86 firmware.
>
> I'd propose to create a new mercurial tree. Are there better ideas ?
That sounds like a decent solution. If you send an initial repo tar ball
and an ssh key we can get this up on xenbits. What would be a good repro
name? ia64-vfirmware.hg ?
Ian
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