Re: [PATCH 0/4] Reintroduce OVMF support

[Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>]

Il 15/10/2013 18:40, Wei Liu ha scritto:
> This small series reintroduces OVMF support in Xen
>
> You can fetch working OVMF tree on:
> git://xenbits.xen.org/people/liuw/ovmf.git master
>
> Working changeset that can be sticked in Config.mk is:
> 8833370303d3bf3153760ee42760ef1b9b5c562
>
> Note that VNC doesn't work properly when using OVMF, but that's not OVMF's
> problem. This issue should be addressed in Xen and I'm working on that.
>
> Wei.

Thanks for work on it, when I tested it months ago there was lot of 
problems.
I think it would be good thing to give an eye to the links below to 
improve the hvm part:

- Integrate legacy bios support inside ovmf (I saw a draft on link above 
and I not know actual progress, there was also discussion about it on 
seabios mailing list)
http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/edk2.git
http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/seabios.git

- Since this is a new/experimental section, it would be a better path to 
move the actual 'static' data taken from hvmloader more 'dynamics' or at 
least have theme generated from qemu.
This would lead in turn to a better support for all the new qemu 
device/features and also to avoid eventual regressions with ovmf/qemu 
newer versions.
Actually even a single modification qemu-side, requires some 
modifications also on xen-side, lot of these tedious and long to apply/test.

Thanks for any reply.

>
> Ian Campbell (3):
>    tools: clone ovmf to ovmf-dir directory
>    tools: support system supplied ovmf binary
>    tools: Enable OVMF build by default
>
> Wei Liu (1):
>    libxl: bump LIBXL_MAXMEM_CONSTANT to 2048
>
>   Makefile                          |    4 ++++
>   config/Tools.mk.in                |    1 +
>   tools/configure                   |   20 +++++++++++++++-----
>   tools/configure.ac                |   13 ++++++++++++-
>   tools/firmware/Makefile           |   31 ++++++++++++-------------------
>   tools/firmware/hvmloader/Makefile |    8 ++++++--
>   tools/libxl/libxl_internal.h      |    2 +-
>   7 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>