From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjkMj-0002t3-As for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 07:32:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjkMi-0001dx-98 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 07:32:17 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:41350) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjkMi-0001ah-24 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 07:32:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:31:33 +0100 From: Igor Mammedov Message-ID: <20190116133133.3c43531f@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20190116115217.jduhqrwbjhuibmoq@sirius.home.kraxel.org> References: <1547566866-129386-1-git-send-email-imammedo@redhat.com> <1547566866-129386-11-git-send-email-imammedo@redhat.com> <15698cec-79eb-7a17-cf70-3a8fcb7962a6@redhat.com> <20190116113227.47ebdea2@redhat.com> <314cffa2-f153-011a-9c6e-01e94c73590a@redhat.com> <20190116115217.jduhqrwbjhuibmoq@sirius.home.kraxel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/14] tests: acpi: ignore SMBIOS tests when UEFI firmware is used List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: Laszlo Ersek , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gonglei , Shannon Zhao , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Philippe =?UTF-8?B?TWF0aGlldS1E?= =?UTF-8?B?YXVkw6k=?= , Samuel Ortiz , Andrew Jones On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:52:17 +0100 Gerd Hoffmann 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. contrib/ or test/ > maybe? Could be tests/data/acpi in this case > > cheers, > Gerd >