Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/12] bundle edk2 platform firmware with QEMU

[Laszlo Ersek]

Hi Michael,

On 03/16/19 15:56, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 14.03.2019 0:00, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> Repo:   https://github.com/lersek/qemu.git
>> Branch: edk2_build_v2
>>
>> Version 1, that is:
>>    [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] bundle edk2 platform firmware with QEMU
> ...
> 
> Hmm. Why to do so? Isn't the goal was to REMOVE current
> ROM sources from qemu in favor of external projects?

I had learned about this goal (from Dan) first when I was fairly deep
into this work already. The motives for the bundling are:

(1) ACPI regression tests need an easily available (distro-independent)
set of UEFI firmware binaries, and "quickly" was preferred to "slowly",

(2) it's been a long time user need (although perhaps not a very strong
one) to get UEFI guest firmware right from QEMU, not just non-UEFI guest
firmware (which is basically synonymous with "BIOS" for x86).

In short, I didn't mean to ignore the goal you mention -- I didn't know
about it, while (1) was perceived as urgent.

Thanks
Laszlo