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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:18:39 +0200
From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [INVITE] OVMF BoF session at the KVM Forum 2014
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To: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= <afaerber@suse.de>, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Drew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>, KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, edk2-devel list <edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, qemu devel list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>, Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>

On 09/18/14 13:44, Andreas F=C3=A4rber wrote:
> Hello Laszlo,
>=20
> Am 18.09.2014 um 10:23 schrieb Laszlo Ersek:
>> I've been made an offer that I couldn't refuse :) to "organize" a Bird=
s
>> 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
>=20
> 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 b=
e
> 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 (=3D=3D 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