Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] OVMF BoF @ KVM Forum 2015

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 09/09/15 18:34, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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)?

Noone was. And I know it for a fact, because all of the handful of BoF
participants were sitting around one table. :)

(If someone speaks up now, "hey I was there, and I'm a Xen guy", then
I'll just dig myself a pit.)

> Are there any minutes or anything
> like that for those interested in the discussion and reasoning rather than
> just the resulting action items?

Not really; I think this todo list is pretty comprehensive. I remember
talking a lot and having trouble breathing (I had gotten sick just a few
days earlier -- yay crowded conferences and parties), but I tend to
speak in many details about few things, and not concisely about many things.

Should you care about those details, I've now forgotten them all. They
probably weren't important anyway. I recall trying to convince Jordan
politely to review my SMM patches. We probably discussed some SMM details.

... Please ask Jordan or the other participants, they weren't sick, and
they don't have a chronic verbosity problem.

... Man, it must be great to work with me! ;)

Thanks for your interest!
Laszlo

> 
> 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
>>     <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.edk2.devel/941> 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
>>
>>
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