Re: [PATCH 0/4] Reintroduce OVMF support

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

Il 16/10/2013 15:10, Wei Liu ha scritto:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:52:43PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
>> On 15/10/13 17:40, Wei Liu wrote:
>>> This small series reintroduces OVMF support in Xen
>> I think somewhere in this series there needs to a brief description of
>> what OVMF is.
>>
> OVMF is a project to enable UEFI firmware for virtual machines. It's
> part of the EDK2 kit. OVMF was first introduced to Xen about a year ago
> but it was later disabled due to build process breakage.
>
> Now that the build problem is resolved in upstream we would like to
> re-enable it in Xen.

I will test ovmf shortly, there is a new patches version ready or near 
to be posted or I'll start to test with this version?
Thanks for any reply.

>
>> With the exception of the first patch this is just adding yet another
>> component to clone and build.  Why is this useful?  Why isn't
>> (effectively) --with-system-ovmf always enabled (and thus not actually
>> needed as an option)?
>>
> Idealy we should always use the binary provided by distro, but
> pratically their binaries are not always up to date / don't always work
> with Xen.
>
>> Isn't Xen's keenness to build it's own particular versions of stuff
>> something that causes significant problems for distributions?
>>
> We've been trying to work closely with upstream to fix bugs. But the
> proecess for distros to pick up upstream bug fixes are different
> stories which we have no control over.
>
> That's why we provide several --with-system-FOO options in our build
> system. The packager can choose in stock binaries if they want to. But
> if the in stock binaries don't work they can use our trees.
>
> Wei.
>
>> David
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