On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 02:17, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindh...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Some bikeshedding below:
>
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 07:41:56PM -0700, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > Repo:   http://github.com/ardbiesheuvel/X86EmulatorPkg.git
> > Commit: 5f4deb30eb935f9004b93d97712cc3ac3ae1ca97
>
> Does this permit execution of both IA32 and X64 code? If so, the name
> makes sense (but the README.md in the above repo suggests otherwise,
> and the readme here says nothing on the topic).
>

I don't know whether the emulator itself supports IA32 execution, but
the driver definitely only registers itself for the X64 machine type.

But since the naming of the upstream repo is not really under review
here, I will add a mention that only X64 is supported.

> > Repo:   http://github.com/tiancore/edk2.git
> > Commit: 2e21e8c4b89656897797019a9c56bc5ccbf12df1
> >
> > Note that the X86EmulatorPkg project's license is _L_GPL not GPL,
> > and so it could arguably be incorporated into edk2-non-osi in source
> > form. However, the emulator is a rather sizable chunk of code, and
> > providing a known working binary is preferred over having each
> > platform build it from scratch, so providing just the binary should
> > be sufficient for the time being.
> >
> > Cc: Andrew Fish <af...@apple.com>
> > Cc: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindh...@linaro.org>
> > Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kin...@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>
> > ---
> > Note that this patch is against the edk2-non-osi repository, not EDK2
> > itself.
> >
> > Binaries are omitted from this patch. The complete patch can be found here:
> > https://git.linaro.org/leg/noupstream/edk2-non-osi.git/commit/?h=upstream
> >
> >  Emulator/X86EmulatorDxe/LICENSE              | 504 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  Emulator/X86EmulatorDxe/README               |   9 +
>
> Could this be Readme.md?
>

Of course. What does the .md stand for actually?

> >  Emulator/X86EmulatorDxe/X86EmulatorDxe.depex | Bin 0 -> 54 bytes
> >  Emulator/X86EmulatorDxe/X86EmulatorDxe.efi   | Bin 0 -> 913408 bytes
> >  Emulator/X86EmulatorDxe/X86EmulatorDxe.inf   |  21 +
> >  5 files changed, 534 insertions(+)
>
> /
>     Leif

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