From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fabio Fantoni Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Reintroduce OVMF support Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:03:19 +0200 Message-ID: <525E6467.80806@m2r.biz> References: <1381855205-3329-1-git-send-email-wei.liu2@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1381855205-3329-1-git-send-email-wei.liu2@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Wei Liu , xen-devel@lists.xen.org Cc: ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, ian.campbell@citrix.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Il 15/10/2013 18:40, Wei Liu ha scritto: > This small series reintroduces OVMF support in Xen > > You can fetch working OVMF tree on: > git://xenbits.xen.org/people/liuw/ovmf.git master > > Working changeset that can be sticked in Config.mk is: > 8833370303d3bf3153760ee42760ef1b9b5c562 > > Note that VNC doesn't work properly when using OVMF, but that's not OVMF's > problem. This issue should be addressed in Xen and I'm working on that. > > Wei. Thanks for work on it, when I tested it months ago there was lot of problems. I think it would be good thing to give an eye to the links below to improve the hvm part: - Integrate legacy bios support inside ovmf (I saw a draft on link above and I not know actual progress, there was also discussion about it on seabios mailing list) http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/edk2.git http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/seabios.git - Since this is a new/experimental section, it would be a better path to move the actual 'static' data taken from hvmloader more 'dynamics' or at least have theme generated from qemu. This would lead in turn to a better support for all the new qemu device/features and also to avoid eventual regressions with ovmf/qemu newer versions. Actually even a single modification qemu-side, requires some modifications also on xen-side, lot of these tedious and long to apply/test. Thanks for any reply. > > Ian Campbell (3): > tools: clone ovmf to ovmf-dir directory > tools: support system supplied ovmf binary > tools: Enable OVMF build by default > > Wei Liu (1): > libxl: bump LIBXL_MAXMEM_CONSTANT to 2048 > > Makefile | 4 ++++ > config/Tools.mk.in | 1 + > tools/configure | 20 +++++++++++++++----- > tools/configure.ac | 13 ++++++++++++- > tools/firmware/Makefile | 31 ++++++++++++------------------- > tools/firmware/hvmloader/Makefile | 8 ++++++-- > tools/libxl/libxl_internal.h | 2 +- > 7 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) >