On Sun, 2017-01-22 at 23:23 -0800, Ricardo Neri wrote: > On Fri, 2017-01-20 at 15:12 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > > The traditional usage of ovmf via the qemu bios parameter is no longer > > supported > > I don't see dropping support for this option in this series. > > Is part of > another series? I just checked the poky repo and I still the the option > supported. Or do you mean that only the ovmf recipe will not support > exporting bios.bin?
Yes, the latter. > > and therefore it is not necessary to create a "bios.bin" > > file in the target sysroot. > > Wouldn't this particular part of the patch break the existing runqemu. > If this is the case, perhaps the last patch (or a patch towards the end > of the series) can remove this functionality in both places. Could be done, but personally I prefer to add something new before taking away the old approach. This might not be applicable here (because there is no other bios), but it still "feels" safer. > On the other hand, this is a new recipe and this may not be super > critical. Especially if you meant that only OVMF will not support > installing bios.bin in sysroot. Maybe all is needed is some > clarification in the commit message. Care to suggest something? ;-) To me, "traditional usage of ovmf ... is no longer supported" already says that this is a statement about ovmf, not the bios parameter, so I'm not sure how to reword this. -- Best Regards, Patrick Ohly The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak on behalf of Intel on this matter. -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
