Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/14] tests: acpi: ignore SMBIOS tests when UEFI firmware is used

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 01/16/19 13:31, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:52:17 +0100
> Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>>   Hi,
>>
>>> This approach allows the UEFI app source to live in the QEMU tree, and
>>> the affected maintainer(s) would be personally responsible for setting
>>> up their edk2 clones, and compilers. (The edk2 clone could even be a
>>> submodule of QEMU, for example at roms/edk2.) For example,
>>> "roms/Makefile" already calls an external EFIROM utility (also from
>>> edk2) in order to build the combined iPXE option ROMs.
>>>
>>> And yes, we could turn the UEFI binaries into bootable ISO images at once.
>>>
>>> I'll try to post some patches soon (or not so soon). I think the app's
>>> source code, and the edk2 submodule, should live under roms/, and the
>>> bootable images should live under pc-bios/.
>>>
>>> (In fact we could use this opportunity to build & bundle OVMF itself...
>>> not sure if that's in scope for now. Gerd, what's your take?)  
>>
>> Well, there is still the idea to move over firmware submodules and
>> prebuilt firmware blobs to a separate repo.  Expermimental repo:
>> https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/qemu-firmware/.  Not touched for more than a
>> year due to being busy with other stuff.  Oh well ...
>>
>> (if someone feels like picking this up feel free to do so).
>>
>> I think adding edk2 as submodule below roms/ makes sense.  Adding rules
>> to roms/Makefile to build the blobs makes sense too.  Not sure we want
>> the binaries actually copied over to pc-bios/ and commited as the uefi
>> firmware is pretty big ...
>>
>> Not sure what a good place for the uefi app would be.  I'd tend to not
>> use roms/, that is the place for firmware submodules.

I figured the source code for the UEFI app would fit due to the script
"configure-seabios.sh" and some actual config files being there already.
But, I'm happy to follow directions. :)

>>  contrib/ or test/ maybe?

> Could be tests/data/acpi in this case

If "tests/data/acpi" is appropriate for source code, that works for me.
We already have "rebuild-expected-aml.sh" there, so I guess another
build script and the UEFI app source code would fit there too.

It would be nice if I could get around submitting some patches this
week. Sigh. :/

Thanks,
Laszlo