On 08/17/17 12:12, Leif Lindholm wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 01:47:59AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 08/17/17 00:37, Jordan Justen wrote: >>> On 2017-08-16 12:23:49, Leif Lindholm wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>>> - the value proposition >>>> for Linaro is that having maintainer parity ArmVirtPkg/OvmfPkg >>>> simplifies the task of maintaining feature parity between the two. >>>> (It is no secret that I would love to see them as a single package, >>>> making it easier to clean up the way EDK2-for-qemu gets packaged by >>>> Linux distributions.) >>> >>> I would also prefer to have OVMF support ARM and eventually RISC-V as >>> well. I don't think Laszlo feels as confident about this though. >> >> I have two concerns: >> >> (1) Reorganizing OvmfPkg for this would take an immense amount of time >> (with possible regressions). > > Well, I'm the one who keeps pushing for it, so it'd be impolite of me > to suggest that someone else should have to deal with it. > >> (2) Sharing more code between modules that aren't inherently >> architecture-independent (and virtualization platform-independent) is risky. > > Let me start by clarifying what I would like to see: > - ArmVirtPkg and OvmfPkg merged into one package. > - Merging a lot of common items into shared .dsc.inc and .fdf.inc > across all platforms. > - ARM/AARCH64 platforms added to build.sh/create-release.py. > - End.
OK, this sounds a lot more palatable to me than unifying actual code. Thanks! Laszlo _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
