[Qemu-devel] OVMF BoF @ KVM Forum 2015

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

Hi.

Let's do an OVMF BoF at this year's KVM Forum too.

Paolo will present

  Securing secure boot: system management mode in KVM and Tiano Core

on Thursday, August 20, in the 5:00pm - 5:30pm time slot.

Right after that, the BoF section starts at 5:30pm:

  http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/program/schedule

We should convene and discuss stuff. I don't have an agenda, so people
should bring their ideas and questions (famous last words).

As food for thought, I tried to collect the feature-looking patches from
the git history that have been committed since last year's KVM Forum,
and to match them against patch sets on the mailing list:

  git log --reverse --oneline --since=2014-10-14 -- \
      OvmfPkg/ \
      ArmVirtPkg/ \
      ArmPlatformPkg/ArmVirtualizationPkg/

I attempted to sort them into categories. You can see the list below.
The ordering is totally random, it's just what I ended up with.
Corrections / additions welcome.

Personally, one (missing) feature I'd like to see discussed is
"SataControllerDxe in OVMF". SMM will require Q35, and the only "IDE"
that Q35 speaks is SATA / AHCI. (And you can't disable that controller
on Q35.)

Anyway, here goes.

Features completed
------------------

(... unless marked [pending])

- Xen guest:

  - PV block driver:
    [PATCH v4 00/19] Introducing Xen PV block driver to OVMF

  - Xen for ARM:
    [PATCH v5 00/29] Xen/ARM guest support

- PCI / hw related:

  - PCI on ARM; detect VGA and USB keyboard:
    [PATCH v3 00/28] ArmVirtualizationPkg/ArmVirtualizationQemu: enable PCI
    [PATCH 0/4] ArmVirtualizationPkg: PlatformIntelBdsLib: dynamic console setup

  - support for Q35:
    [PATCH v6 0/9] OVMF: Add support for Qemu Q35 machine type
    [PATCH 1/1] OvmfPkg: QemuBootOrderLib: parse OFW device path nodes of PCI bridges

  - USB3 (ARM and x86):
    [PATCH v2 2/4] ArmVirtualizationPkg/ArmVirtualizationQemu: include XHCI driver
    [PATCH v2 4/4] OvmfPkg: include XHCI driver

  - support TCO watchdog emulation features:
    [PATCH v5 2/2] OvmfPkg/PlatformPei: Initialise RCBA (B0:D31:F0 0xf0) register

  - virtio-vga:
    [PATCH] Add virtio-vga support

  - support extra PCI root buses for NUMA-locality with assigned
    devices:
    [PATCH v3 00/23] OvmfPkg: support extra PCI root buses

- QEMU config integration:

  - fw_cfg, boot order, and -kernel booting on ARM:
    [PATCH v4 00/13] ArmVirtualizationQemu: support fw_cfg, bootorder, '-kernel'
    [PATCH 0/3] ArmVirtPkg: drop support for the ARM BDS

  - support for "-boot menu=on[,splash-time=N]":
    [PATCH v2 0/3] OVMF, ArmVirt: consume QEMU's "-boot menu=on[,splash-time=N]"

  - ACPI tables for ARM:
    [PATCH v2 0/3] ACPI over fw_cfg for ARM/AARCH64 qemu guests

  - SMBIOS features: Type 0 default, and SMBIOS 3.0 support on ARM and
    x86:
    [PATCH] OvmfPkg/SMBIOS: Provide default Type 0 (BIOS Information) structure
    [PATCH v2 0/6] ArmVirtPkg/ArmVirtQemu: support SMBIOS
    [PATCH 0/9] OvmfPkg, ArmVirtPkg: SMBIOS 3.0, round 2

- ARM specific:

  - "fun" with the caches:
    [PATCH v4 0/5] ArmVirtualizationPkg: explicit cache maintenance

  - secure boot:
    [PATCH v3 0/3] ArmVirtualizationQemu: enable support for UEFI Secure Boot

  - performance optimization:
    [PATCH v2 0/6] ArmPkg/ArmVirtPkg: GIC revision detection

  - better handling for the typical Linux terminal (generic driver code,
    hooked up to ArmVirt):
    [PATCH V4 0/5] Add TtyTerm terminal type

- SMM for OVMF (in progress):
    [PATCH 00/11] Bits and pieces
    [PATCH 00/58] OvmfPkg: support SMM for better security (single VCPU, IA32) [pending]

- Build system:

  - moving to NASM:
    [PATCH 0/7] Convert OVMF assembly to NASM
    [PATCH v2 0/6] OvmfPkg/XenBusDxe: Convert *.asm to NASM.

  - accept UTF-8 in .uni files:
    [PATCH v4 00/10] Support UTF-8 in .uni string files

  - LLVM/clang support for AARCH64 (in progress):
    [PATCH v4 00/13] BaseTools: unify all GCC linker scripts
    [PATCH v4 0/7] small model and clang support for AARCH64 [pending]

- UEFI compliance:

  - support for OsIndications:
    [PATCH v2 0/9] OvmfPkg: PlatformBdsLib cleanups and improvements

  - signal ReadyToBoot:
    [PATCH 1/8] OvmfPkg/PlatformBdsLib: Signal ReadyToBoot before booting QEMU kernel

  - signal EndOfDxe:
    [PATCH v2] ArmVirtPkg: signal EndOxDxe event in PlatformBsdInit
    [PATCH v2 0/6] OvmfPkg: save S3 state at EndOfDxe

  - fix Serial IO Protocol issues flagged by SCT
    [PATCH V4 0/5] Some improvements on serial terminal

- other

  - big OVMF guests:
    [PATCH v2 0/4] OvmfPkg: enable >= 64 GB guests

  - IPv6 (conditionally enabled):
    [PATCH v2] OvmfPkg: enable the IPv6 support

  - many fixes for toolchain warnings and C language misuse

Thanks
Laszlo