From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZiKI-0001yN-US for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 12:34:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZiKG-0004Cn-6g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 12:34:26 -0400 Received: from smtp02.citrix.com ([66.165.176.63]:24834) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZiKG-0004CT-2F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 12:34:24 -0400 Message-ID: <1441816461.24450.353.camel@citrix.com> From: Ian Campbell Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 17:34:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: <55EFF48F.7090005@redhat.com> References: <55C8D046.7040203@redhat.com> <55EFF48F.7090005@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] OVMF BoF @ KVM Forum 2015 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Laszlo Ersek , edk2-devel-01 Cc: Lenny Szubowicz , Karen Noel , Ard Biesheuvel , "Jordan Justen (Intel address)" , Cole Robinson , "Ademar de Souza Reis Jr." , Alexander Graf , qemu devel list , "Gabriel L. Somlo (GMail)" , Peter Jones , Peter Batard , Gerd Hoffmann , Reza Jelveh , Paolo Bonzini , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , Hannes Reinecke 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 > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel