From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 01:02:01 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] Rename aarch64_efi_defconfig to
 qemu_aarch64_virt_efi_defconfig
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Hi Erico, All,

I would like to rename the aarch64_efi_defconfig to
qemu_aarch64_virt_efi_defconfig  in order to do a runtime test in the Buildroot
gitlab-ci.

See the gitlab-ci job for the qemu_aarch64_virt_defconfig:
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/jobs/623442197

Note: There is no ACPI table while booting the kernel built with
qemu_aarch64_virt_defconfig since there is no bootloader.

But we need to build or download the aarch64 UEFI firmware image (QEMU_EFI.fd)
also called Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF).

Building QEMU_EFI.fd would require to package Tianocore's edk2 [1] for the host
and deal with the specific buildsystem (bash + Makefiles).

But since it's only for testing, I'm wondering if we should use a prebuilt
QEMU_EFI.fd instead building it.

I propose to use the one provided by Linaro [2] that is periodically released
(~once a year) and probably well tested.

What do you think?

[1] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2.git
[2]
http://releases.linaro.org/reference-platform/enterprise/firmware/open-source/19.03/

Best regards,
Romain