RE: [cip-dev] [isar-cip-core] [PATCH] scripts/start-efishell.sh: Add -nographic option

["Kanagarajan, Vijaikumar" <Vijaikumar_Kanagarajan@mentor.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cip-dev@lists.cip-project.org <cip-dev@lists.cip-project.org> On
> Behalf Of Jan Kiszka
> Sent: 27 June 2022 13:44
> To: P T, Sarath <Sarath_PT@mentor.com>; cip-dev@lists.cip-project.org
> Subject: Re: [cip-dev] [isar-cip-core] [PATCH] scripts/start-efishell.sh: Add -
> nographic option
> 
> On 27.06.22 09:12, Sarath P T wrote:
> > From: sarath P T <Sarath_PT@mentor.com>
> >
> > When we launch the start-efishell.sh script for adding the keys into
> > OVMF firmware we faced gtk initialization failed error. So it seems we
> > need to open the OVMF in nographic mode, hence we added the required
> > option to the script.
> >
> 
> Which QEMU-Version? Which OVMF version (buster/bullseye/something
> else)?
> I'm not seeing this, but I'm facing other issues with that firmware provided by
> bullseye (a crash).

Nope. Not related to OVMF crashes. This is just to make the script work on headless systems/over ssh.

Sarath, 
Can you send a V2 with a modified commit message. The latter half is a bit misleading. Probably you meant
"open QEMU" and not OVMF.

Thanks,
Vijai Kumar K


> 
> > Signed-off-by: sarath P T <Sarath_PT@mentor.com>
> > ---
> >  scripts/start-efishell.sh | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/start-efishell.sh b/scripts/start-efishell.sh
> > index d451f43..0831f83 100755
> > --- a/scripts/start-efishell.sh
> > +++ b/scripts/start-efishell.sh
> > @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
> >  ovmf_code=${OVMF_CODE:-/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd}
> >  ovmf_vars=${OVMF_VARS:-./OVMF_VARS.fd}
> >  DISK=$1
> > -qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -M q35 \
> > +qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -M q35 -nographic \
> >                     -cpu host,hv_relaxed,hv_vapic,hv-spinlocks=0xfff -smp 2 -m 2G -
> no-hpet \
> >                     -global ICH9-LPC.disable_s3=1 \
> >                     -global isa-fdc.driveA= \
> Jan
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