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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL for-2.4 0/7] update ipxe roms,
	fix efi support
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To: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

On 07/22/15 22:06, Michael Brown wrote:
> On 21/07/15 23:58, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>>> Instead of propagating that fix
>>> into QEMU, let's focus on ipxe upstream to solve the problem.
>>
>> How's this for focus:
>>
>> (1) [PATCH] efi_snp: improve compliance with the
>>              EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL spec
>>      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.ipxe.devel/3799
>>
>> (2) [PATCH] efi_snp: improve compliance with the
>>              EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL spec
>>      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.ipxe.devel/3955
>>
>> (3) [PATCH] [efi] make load file protocol optional
>>      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.ipxe.devel/3815
>>
>> (4) [RESENT PATCH 0/2] efi boot fixes.
>>      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.ipxe.devel/3854
>>
>> (5) [RESEND PATCH] efi_snp: improve compliance with the
>>                     EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL spec
>>      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.ipxe.devel/3934
>>
>> (6) [PATCH] efi_snp: improve compliance with the
>>              EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL spec
>>      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.ipxe.devel/4096
> 
> Both (sic) of these patches now have upstream implementations:
> 
>   http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/88a5f56
>   http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/a15c0d7

Thank you.

> Unless I'm missing something, there are only two patches involved here.

No, you are right, it's about two patches.

> I've also upstreamed a named configuration for qemu which incorporates
> your existing config changes (based on roms/config.ipxe.general.h) and
> adds the option to disable the EFI_LOAD_FILE_PROTOCOL installation:
> 
>   http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/a200ad4
> 
> To build with this named configuration, just add "CONFIG=qemu" to the
> make command line when building iPXE.

Much appreciated. Hopefully Gerd can cover this when he returns from his
vacation.

Laszlo