On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:19 PM Robert Yang <liezhi.y...@windriver.com> wrote:
> I'd like to add ovmf-native to make qemu-native/runqemu support > boot UEFI image, that will make us debug UEFI image much more easier, > without ovmf, we have to burn EFI image to a usb disk or cdrom, > then boot it on the real hardware, this is inconvenient. (Virtual > box can't boot our UEFI image, either, please see my last email > about virtualbox, we may fix it later.) > > The ovmf is released under BSD license: > http://www.tianocore.org/ovmf/ > The website says: > License information: BSD (May contain an additional exception if bundled > with > the FAT driver.) > > We don't use the prebuilt FAT driver, we will build it from ovmf source. > > I tried it in my local repo, it works. > > We need to do: > 1) Add ovmf-native to oe-core. > 2) Move acpica from meta-oe to oe-core since ovmf-naive requires iasl > which is > provided by acpica, we may also move acpitests to oe-core since it is > used > for testing acpica, others are not needed. > 3) Update runqemu to make it can boot EFI image. > > Of course, this for master branch only. > > Any objections or comments, please ? > Seems like a good idea to me. I'd love to be able to test EFI images in qemu, and there's an open issue in bugzilla about it.
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