Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] OvmfPkg: PlatformBootManagerLibGrub: Allow executing kernel via fw_cfg

2021-07-20 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 at 09:33, Dov Murik wrote: > > > > On 19/07/2021 22:14, Dov Murik wrote: > > > > > > On 19/07/2021 18:21, Tom Lendacky wrote: > >> On 7/6/21 3:54 AM, Dov Murik wrote: > >>> From: James Bottomley > >>> > >>> Support QEMU's -kernel option. > >>> > >>>

Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] OvmfPkg: PlatformBootManagerLibGrub: Allow executing kernel via fw_cfg

2021-07-20 Thread Dov Murik
On 19/07/2021 22:14, Dov Murik wrote: > > > On 19/07/2021 18:21, Tom Lendacky wrote: >> On 7/6/21 3:54 AM, Dov Murik wrote: >>> From: James Bottomley >>> >>> Support QEMU's -kernel option. >>> >>> OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLibGrub/QemuKernel.c is an exact copy >>> of

Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] OvmfPkg: PlatformBootManagerLibGrub: Allow executing kernel via fw_cfg

2021-07-19 Thread Dov Murik
On 20/07/2021 1:36, Christoph Willing wrote: > On 20/7/21 3:58 am, Dov Murik wrote: >> >> >> On 19/07/2021 15:56, Christoph Willing wrote: >>> Thanks for the clarification Dov. >>> >>> I've been trying with just "normal" VMs, not SEV. I did already find and >>> try the

Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] OvmfPkg: PlatformBootManagerLibGrub: Allow executing kernel via fw_cfg

2021-07-19 Thread Christoph Willing
On 20/7/21 3:58 am, Dov Murik wrote: > > > On 19/07/2021 15:56, Christoph Willing wrote: >> Thanks for the clarification Dov. >> >> I've been trying with just "normal" VMs, not SEV. I did already find and try >> the confidential-containers-demo sev-hashes-v2 branch but it didn't help - >> not

Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] OvmfPkg: PlatformBootManagerLibGrub: Allow executing kernel via fw_cfg

2021-07-19 Thread Dov Murik
On 19/07/2021 18:21, Tom Lendacky wrote: > On 7/6/21 3:54 AM, Dov Murik wrote: >> From: James Bottomley >> >> Support QEMU's -kernel option. >> >> OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLibGrub/QemuKernel.c is an exact copy >> of OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLib/QemuKernel.c . > > Just a

Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] OvmfPkg: PlatformBootManagerLibGrub: Allow executing kernel via fw_cfg

2021-07-19 Thread Dov Murik
On 19/07/2021 15:56, Christoph Willing wrote: > Thanks for the clarification Dov. > > I've been trying with just "normal" VMs, not SEV. I did already find and try > the confidential-containers-demo sev-hashes-v2 branch but it didn't help - > not surprising if it's not relevant to normal VMs.

Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] OvmfPkg: PlatformBootManagerLibGrub: Allow executing kernel via fw_cfg

2021-07-19 Thread Lendacky, Thomas via groups.io
On 7/6/21 3:54 AM, Dov Murik wrote: > From: James Bottomley > > Support QEMU's -kernel option. > > OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLibGrub/QemuKernel.c is an exact copy > of OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLib/QemuKernel.c . Just a nit, but this confused me initially. Maybe it should say

Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] OvmfPkg: PlatformBootManagerLibGrub: Allow executing kernel via fw_cfg

2021-07-19 Thread Christoph Willing
Thanks for the clarification Dov. I've been trying with just "normal" VMs, not SEV. I did already find and try the confidential-containers-demo sev-hashes-v2 branch but it didn't help - not surprising if it's not relevant to normal VMs. Do you know whether this functionality (-kernel, -initrd,

Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] OvmfPkg: PlatformBootManagerLibGrub: Allow executing kernel via fw_cfg

2021-07-19 Thread Christoph Willing
I have been using Qemu with -kernel,-initrd,-append options without OVMF for some time in my workflow. When booting with OVMF, I have found that the most recent tag in the edk2 public git repo that supports those options is vUDK2018. Therefore I'm extremely interested in this series of patches,

Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] OvmfPkg: PlatformBootManagerLibGrub: Allow executing kernel via fw_cfg

2021-07-19 Thread Dov Murik
Chris, On 19/07/2021 7:46, Christoph Willing wrote: > I have been using Qemu with -kernel,-initrd,-append options without OVMF for > some time in my workflow. When booting with OVMF, I have found that the most > recent tag in the edk2 public git repo that supports those options is > vUDK2018.

Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] OvmfPkg: PlatformBootManagerLibGrub: Allow executing kernel via fw_cfg

2021-07-17 Thread Brijesh Singh via groups.io
On 7/6/21 3:54 AM, Dov Murik wrote: > From: James Bottomley > > Support QEMU's -kernel option. > > OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLibGrub/QemuKernel.c is an exact copy > of OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLib/QemuKernel.c . > > Cc: Laszlo Ersek > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel > Cc: Jordan Justen

[edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] OvmfPkg: PlatformBootManagerLibGrub: Allow executing kernel via fw_cfg

2021-07-06 Thread Dov Murik
From: James Bottomley Support QEMU's -kernel option. OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLibGrub/QemuKernel.c is an exact copy of OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLib/QemuKernel.c . Cc: Laszlo Ersek Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Jordan Justen Cc: Ashish Kalra Cc: Brijesh Singh Cc: Erdem Aktas