Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V5 2/7] tests/acpi: add pxb/pxb-pcie tests

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

Adding Gerd

On 07/18/16 21:32, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> On 07/18/2016 08:52 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> On 07/18/16 15:34, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>>> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 19:53:09 +0300
>>> Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Add an ivshmem device with 1G shared memory to
>>>> pxb in order to check the ACPI code of 64bit MMIO allocation.
>>> what is forcing ivshmem to be mapped above 4G?
>>
>> Speaking for OVMF: unlike SeaBIOS, the edk2 PCI bus driver prefers to
>> map 64-bit BARs outside of 32-bit address space, regardless of how much
>> room is left in the 32-bit MMIO aperture.
> 
> Thanks Laszlo, we need to support make check with ovmf (not immediate,
> of course).
> There is no integration yet with QEMU, right? Having a set of binaries
> like with SeaBIOS
> makes sense?

Yes, it makes sense.

> Are there any licensing issues?

If QEMU can bundle 2-clause BSDL binaries, then there shouldn't be.

For the legally inclined, it might be safest to review the
*Pkg/License.txt files, for all the *Pkg top-level directories from
which OVMF pulls in at least one module.

Thanks
Laszlo