Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] mach-virt: Provide sample configuration files

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 20:34 +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> > > Also, I can't verify the exact pathnames for Fedora.
> > 
> > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=8491933 ;)
> 
> Ahhh, it's *very* good that you provided this reference, because now I
> see that the file names below are incorrect. Namely, for aarch64 guests,
> you have to use the files that are padded to 64MB, *not* the files as
> they fall out of the edk2 build process.

Go figure... Thanks for spotting that!

[...]
> > # Depending on the OS distribution you're using on the
> > # host, the name of the package containing the firmware
> > # binary and variable store, as well as the paths to the
> 
> red flag: please say "variable store *template*"

Right. Missed it, sorry.

[...]
> > # Fedora:
> > #   edk2-aarch64                          (package)
> > #   /usr/share/edk2/aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd   (binary)
> > #   /usr/share/edk2/aarch64/QEMU_VARS.fd  (template)
> > #
> > # RHELSA:
> > #   AAVMF                                 (package)
> > #   /usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_CODE.fd        (binary)
> > #   /usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_VARS.fd        (varstore)
> 
> Two comments:
> 
> - Under Fedora, you have (template), which is cool, (varstore) is bad. :)

That just shows that I'm getting really tired and I should
step away from the keyboard for the day :/

> - Again, the files you note above for Fedora are 2MB and 768KB in size,
> respectively, which is wrong. The files you note for RHELSA are both
> 64MB in size, which is right. Fedora ships the according files as well,
> but their names are different:
> 
> /usr/share/edk2/aarch64/QEMU_EFI-pflash.raw      (binary)
> /usr/share/edk2/aarch64/vars-template-pflash.raw (varstore template)

Consider it fixed!

(Those filenames, though... Ewww.)

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization