Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] OVMF BoF @ KVM Forum 2015

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 10:57 +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 08/10/15 18:24, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Let's do an OVMF BoF at this year's KVM Forum too.
> 
> Here's a preliminary task list

Thanks for including xen-devel in this. Was anyone from the Xen community
present at the BoF (so far as you know)? Are there any minutes or anything
like that for those interested in the discussion and reasoning rather than
just the resulting action items?

Thanks,
Ian.

> , after some off-list discussion (I tried
> to incorporate comments):
> 
> - create GPL'd fork called "ovmf" for expediting virt development
>   (OvmfPkg, ArmVirtPkg)
>   - maybe leverage the feature under
>     <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.edk2.devel/941> for
>     setting up a separate "tianocore/edk2-gpl" repo, for GPL'd
>     contributions [Jordan]
>     - repo separation by license could make things harder for packagers
>       and QEMU bundling [Laszlo]
> - document the rules / justification for "ovmf" (licensing
>   conflicts, non-technical blockage on edk2 etc).
> - No new mailing list needed
> - push RH's downstream-only patches to "ovmf", wherever that makes
>   sense
> - remove encumbered FAT driver
> - import Peter Batard's GPL r/o FAT driver port of GRUB's
> - secure OpenSSL linking exception for the former from the copyright
>   holders (Peter Batard, GRUB project)
> - "ovmf" should be periodically rebased / should fetch+merge edk2 as
>   master (arguments both for and against merging); distros should
>   then track "ovmf" as their upstream, not edk2
> - get OVMF into Fedora (as pkg) and QEMU (as bundled binary)
> - do OVMF releases, maybe in sync with QEMU's releases
>   - we can probably build from known good revisions from git [Alex]
> - revive Q35 SATA driver work / poke Reza
>   - Hannes and Gabriel have refreshed patches, but their versions differ
> 
> 
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