Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RfC] edk2: add qemu variable store firmware builds

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

Cc'ing Michael and Daniel

On 28/11/25 10:25, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> This is somewhat related to the bigger question how we want move forward
> with firmware builds in the qemu repo ...
> 
> qemu got uefi variable store support in version 10.0.  With the pending
> edk2 firmware update (patches are on the list right now) edk2 is new
> enough that support for the qemu variable store is present in the code
> base.  This is a compile time option though, so it needs separate
> firmware images.  This little patch series adds them.
> 
> The big question is if we want go down that route.  The images are not
> essential for qemu itself.  The test cases for the acpi tables use the
> firmware images for the traditional, pflash-based efi variable store
> and can continue to do so.
> 
> So, do we want add them?  For qemu developer / user convenience?  Or
> leave that to linux distributions?  Fedora already ships builds (see
> /usr/share/edk2/*/*qemuvars*).
> 
> take care,
>    Gerd
> 
> Gerd Hoffmann (2):
>    edk2: add qemuvars builds to config
>    edk2: add qemuvars build binaries
> 
>   pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-qemuvars.fd.bz2 | Bin 0 -> 1621714 bytes
>   pc-bios/edk2-x86_64-qemuvars.fd.bz2  | Bin 0 -> 2095693 bytes
>   roms/edk2-build.config               |  37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-qemuvars.fd.bz2
>   create mode 100644 pc-bios/edk2-x86_64-qemuvars.fd.bz2
>