Public bug reported:
[Availability]
Pending upload of 0~20160408 upstream snapshot release (in progress:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-qemu/edk2.git)
[Rationale]
edk2 provides EFI ROM images to be used by KVM VMs. On x86 this can be used as
an alternative to seabios. On arm64, however, there is no "seabios" option -
edk2 is the *only* way to boot an arm64 guest using the kernel/ramdisk
configured in the image. Without edk2, users have to manually extract the
kernel/ramdisk/cmdline from the cloud image and provide them externally to
qemu. This obviously isn't a reasonable way to e.g. manage OpenStack instances,
as the kernel/ramdisk would have to be re-extracted and reconfigured on every
kernel security update. We'd therefore like to be able to have qemu-system-x86
and qemu-system-arm depend on the corresponding edk2 binary for the
architecture.
edk2 is currently in multiverse due to a licensing restriction on the
FAT driver code. Microsoft has recently removed the non-DFSG
restriction.
[Security]
edk2 had a couple of CVEs assigned in 2014: CVE-2014-4859, CVE-2014-4860, but
it looks like those were the only 2.
[Quality assurance]
The binary packages don't require any configuration - they're basically just
providing data files that can optionally be used by QEMU.
[Dependencies]
All build deps are in main, and all produced binary packages have no runtime
dependencies.
[Standards compliance]
EDK2 is the sample implementation for UEFI from Intel - de facto
standards-compliant.
[Maintenance]
Canonical supports OpenStack on arm64, for which this is a key component.
Linaro is actively maintaining the virt bits upstream, and Canonical's HWE and
Foundations team are maintaining the package for that purpose.
[Background information]
** Affects: edk2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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