Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL for-2.4 0/7] update ipxe roms, fix efi support

[Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>]

On 21/07/15 23:58, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> Instead of propagating that fix
>> into QEMU, let's focus on ipxe upstream to solve the problem.
>
> How's this for focus:
>
> (1) [PATCH] efi_snp: improve compliance with the
>              EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL spec
>      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.ipxe.devel/3799
>
> (2) [PATCH] efi_snp: improve compliance with the
>              EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL spec
>      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.ipxe.devel/3955
>
> (3) [PATCH] [efi] make load file protocol optional
>      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.ipxe.devel/3815
>
> (4) [RESENT PATCH 0/2] efi boot fixes.
>      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.ipxe.devel/3854
>
> (5) [RESEND PATCH] efi_snp: improve compliance with the
>                     EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL spec
>      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.ipxe.devel/3934
>
> (6) [PATCH] efi_snp: improve compliance with the
>              EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL spec
>      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.ipxe.devel/4096

Both (sic) of these patches now have upstream implementations:

   http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/88a5f56
   http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/a15c0d7

Unless I'm missing something, there are only two patches involved here.

I've also upstreamed a named configuration for qemu which incorporates 
your existing config changes (based on roms/config.ipxe.general.h) and 
adds the option to disable the EFI_LOAD_FILE_PROTOCOL installation:

   http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/a200ad4

To build with this named configuration, just add "CONFIG=qemu" to the 
make command line when building iPXE.

Michael