[Qemu-devel] [INVITE] OVMF BoF session at the KVM Forum 2014

[Qemu-devel] [INVITE] OVMF BoF session at the KVM Forum 2014

[Laszlo Ersek]

Hello All,

I've been made an offer that I couldn't refuse :) to "organize" a Birds
of a Feather session concerning OVMF at the KVM Forum 2014.

Interested people, please sign up:

  http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Forum_2014_BOF#OVMF

Everyone else: apologies about the noise.

Thanks,
Laszlo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [INVITE] OVMF BoF session at the KVM Forum 2014

[Andreas Färber]

Hello Laszlo,

Am 18.09.2014 um 10:23 schrieb Laszlo Ersek:
> I've been made an offer that I couldn't refuse :) to "organize" a Birds
> of a Feather session concerning OVMF at the KVM Forum 2014.
> 
> Interested people, please sign up:
> 
>   http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Forum_2014_BOF#OVMF

Nice idea. Your summary mentions only ia32 and x86_64 - I would be
interested in an update on OVMF for AArch64 - there seemed to already be
support for ARM's Foundation Model but not yet for QEMU.

Regards,
Andreas

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Re: [Qemu-devel] [INVITE] OVMF BoF session at the KVM Forum 2014

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 09/18/14 13:44, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Hello Laszlo,
> 
> Am 18.09.2014 um 10:23 schrieb Laszlo Ersek:
>> I've been made an offer that I couldn't refuse :) to "organize" a Birds
>> of a Feather session concerning OVMF at the KVM Forum 2014.
>>
>> Interested people, please sign up:
>>
>>   http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Forum_2014_BOF#OVMF
> 
> Nice idea. Your summary mentions only ia32 and x86_64 - I would be
> interested in an update on OVMF for AArch64 - there seemed to already be
> support for ARM's Foundation Model but not yet for QEMU.

We've successfully UEFI-booted
- GNU/Linux guest(s) on
- upstream edk2 (*) and
- upstream qemu-system-aarch64 with
  - TCG on x86_64 host,
  - KVM on aarch64 host (**)

(*) Ard's patches for upstream edk2 are in the process of being tested /
merged.

(**) Ard's patches for the upstream host kernel (== KVM) have been...
ugh, not sure... applied to a maintainer tree? Ard? :)

So, it works (as far as I tested it myself on TCG, and heard reports
about it on KVM), but right now you need to apply a handful of pending
patches manually.

We can certainly talk about Aarch64 at the BoF, but then Ard should
co-organize. No good deed goes unpunished, as ever! :)

Cheers,
Laszlo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [INVITE] OVMF BoF session at the KVM Forum 2014

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 18 September 2014 05:18, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 09/18/14 13:44, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Hello Laszlo,
>>
>> Am 18.09.2014 um 10:23 schrieb Laszlo Ersek:
>>> I've been made an offer that I couldn't refuse :) to "organize" a Birds
>>> of a Feather session concerning OVMF at the KVM Forum 2014.
>>>
>>> Interested people, please sign up:
>>>
>>>   http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Forum_2014_BOF#OVMF
>>
>> Nice idea. Your summary mentions only ia32 and x86_64 - I would be
>> interested in an update on OVMF for AArch64 - there seemed to already be
>> support for ARM's Foundation Model but not yet for QEMU.
>
> We've successfully UEFI-booted
> - GNU/Linux guest(s) on
> - upstream edk2 (*) and
> - upstream qemu-system-aarch64 with
>   - TCG on x86_64 host,
>   - KVM on aarch64 host (**)
>
> (*) Ard's patches for upstream edk2 are in the process of being tested /
> merged.
>

They have been merged as of yesterday.

> (**) Ard's patches for the upstream host kernel (== KVM) have been...
> ugh, not sure... applied to a maintainer tree? Ard? :)
>

Some are in kvm/master, which I think means to should go into the next
3.17-rc, although I haven't seen much movement there.
Some other bits are being taken through the kvmarm/queue branch, so
they should arrive by 3.18-rc1

> So, it works (as far as I tested it myself on TCG, and heard reports
> about it on KVM), but right now you need to apply a handful of pending
> patches manually.
>
> We can certainly talk about Aarch64 at the BoF, but then Ard should
> co-organize. No good deed goes unpunished, as ever! :)
>

I do appreciate the suggestion, but I don't think it will be feasible
for me to come to Duesseldorf.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [edk2] [INVITE] OVMF BoF session at the KVM Forum 2014

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 19/09/2014 16:17, Ard Biesheuvel ha scritto:
> 
>> > (**) Ard's patches for the upstream host kernel (== KVM) have been...
>> > ugh, not sure... applied to a maintainer tree? Ard? :)
>> >
> Some are in kvm/master, which I think means to should go into the next
> 3.17-rc, although I haven't seen much movement there.

They'll miss this week's rc, but I'll send them out early next week.

Paolo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [edk2] [INVITE] OVMF BoF session at the KVM Forum 2014

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 19 September 2014 10:03, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> Il 19/09/2014 16:17, Ard Biesheuvel ha scritto:
>>
>>> > (**) Ard's patches for the upstream host kernel (== KVM) have been...
>>> > ugh, not sure... applied to a maintainer tree? Ard? :)
>>> >
>> Some are in kvm/master, which I think means to should go into the next
>> 3.17-rc, although I haven't seen much movement there.
>
> They'll miss this week's rc, but I'll send them out early next week.
>

OK thanks for the update


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