On 05/21/14 16:47, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 04:03:32PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> This means that beyond realizing the BGRT is "some ACPI table" and >> installing it, the parser would have to incorporate knowledge about >> BGRT. I might prefer simply failing. > > Why, because you think supplying a boot image is useless? It's not useless, but probably very low priority compared to everything else that I'm struggling to cover. >> This disparity in developer resources is a much graver problem than >> interface breakage between qemu and OVMF. Your mentioning qemu >> potentially bundling OVMF is useful exactly for this reason -- once that >> happens, qemu developers will be *forced* to contribute to OVMF, same as >> they contribute now to SeaBIOS. > > Right. I don't know enough ATM to say whether Qemu can or should > do this, you should send mail to qemu mailing list if > you want to see this discussed. I believe that people who care about OVMF should come to the list (and they sometimes do). I don't see the point of canvassing. I don't want to force people to contribute -- with the above I meant that once OVMF is bundled with qemu, that's kind of a commitment from the qemu community to contribute to OVMF (adapt it to qemu) in the longer term too. > I think this patchset is an improvement, we definitely have > plans to split the file because it's growing and it's > getting harder to allocate everything in one chunk, and we don't > have plans to add padding or BGRT yet. > > Whenever we add BGRT it will have to be handled in some way, > maybe by rewriting the support along the lines I suggested. Thanks. I'm delighted if this can be accepted as an improvement. If (when?) less conservative contents are introduced in the fw_cfg files and the parser chokes on them, we can hopefully revisit the question. Maybe I'll do it, maybe someone else will. Thanks Laszlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
