From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44435) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZbCe-0002yG-Fd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 04:58:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZbCb-0002S6-9N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 04:58:04 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33275) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZbCb-0002Rc-5E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 04:58:01 -0400 References: <55C8D046.7040203@redhat.com> From: Laszlo Ersek Message-ID: <55EFF48F.7090005@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 10:57:51 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55C8D046.7040203@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF BoF @ KVM Forum 2015 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: edk2-devel-01 Cc: Lenny Szubowicz , Alexander Graf , Karen Noel , Gerd Hoffmann , Ard Biesheuvel , "Jordan Justen (Intel address)" , Reza Jelveh , qemu devel list , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , "Gabriel L. Somlo (GMail)" , Peter Jones , Peter Batard , Hannes Reinecke , Cole Robinson , Paolo Bonzini , "Ademar de Souza Reis Jr." 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, 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