From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Efraim Flashner Subject: Re: omvf firmware Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:47:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20180315204734.GB1080@macbook41> References: <20180315194815.GA1080@macbook41> <20180315202937.dtnuqfkh6h34nzcy@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45392) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ewZmm-0002jt-E3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:47:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ewZmi-0004iY-Gd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:47:40 -0400 Received: from flashner.co.il ([178.62.234.194]:35030) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ewZmi-0004i8-8x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:47:36 -0400 Received: from localhost (46-117-130-5.bb.netvision.net.il [46.117.130.5]) by flashner.co.il (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 16DEF4017C for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180315202937.dtnuqfkh6h34nzcy@abyayala> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org --mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 08:29:37PM +0000, ng0 wrote: > Efraim Flashner transcribed 2.0K bytes: > > I succesfully built ovmf firmware for aarch64 on my aarch64 board. > > Currently it builds for x86_64 and i686 on %intel platforms only. I > > think it's best to create a make-ovmf-firmware procedure to build the > > firmware for x86_64/i686/aarch64/armhf, but there's not a clear > > cross-grade path from our current x86_64 & i686 package to x86_64 or > > i686. > >=20 > > The two other options I've thought of are adding aarch64 and armhf > > support to our current package, which would balloon the native-inputs > > with cross compilers, or leave the current package and add 1 or 2 new > > pacakges, but then I feel like that's almost back to my original intent > > of creating a procedure and 4 packages. > >=20 > > Suggestions? Comments? >=20 > I don't know omvf. Does it involve kernel space modules? I've started > experimenting with a path to a generalized kernel-module support (which > needs the "source" we currently throw away of the kernel, etc). >=20 > Or what this firmware like? >=20 to quote Debian: Open Virtual Machine Firmware is a build of EDK II for 64-bit x86 virtual machines. It includes full support for UEFI, including Secure Boot, allowing use of UEFI in place of a traditional BIOS in your VM. --=20 Efraim Flashner =D7=90=D7=A4=D7=A8=D7=99=D7=9D = =D7=A4=D7=9C=D7=A9=D7=A0=D7=A8 GPG key =3D A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted --mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEoov0DD5VE3JmLRT3Qarn3Mo9g1EFAlqq2+MACgkQQarn3Mo9 g1GehRAAqOrSez+F8lc5YoPPx2XsaNEeK3rjVvbh/Wj9hRn300W0dxYewTIWysiS Ctu4cxHcNbyX+whB2IKLDhhY+Y78K4z4Aff7P/zfCk/zAcSmnUdCHo7Ze/A+zl5J zLaXe8YV0lAb3k5SYmh03fwuPzeSQlocy9lhK2+aZJgA5KO18DysT+hBUOdVJY01 nwopb+QqSqwGrnzyvpnIf5TZIes5VY8CK6F+q0BavK+4lypXI6m90IUrYrbFCvQC lGfyfK+kTOrh2Kgsi8659XcyvnyWrpHieSHjZvJiOZakGAd09IubS5ATAj5/Sn90 TifBpky/tXotzDYWvf/u//FbI6xrl32JFzw2n1qgKTk3J7MTTH1c3sqxEahG6hh9 kr9NhvW/0P/7sSaqf9AA4EnY5cR0Y2SZmznsUqCJaOF+xUAmiQj4nSvyJaRTNWj5 tZtiT+hl1FxPOuX0kuZM9U62XbpiJl4DtMnBD2xRBzcQ7dkV6QDWrKD5EXoGTYr2 zPCraFbshUDxLrkK/0EaKUJdUtVz+6vfBE8fWB8GCNn+NEDBiSkAf61+EWmQyQzo CuPrFLuqXhy6OAlat5gBNpmRjS9NiQjKC7PKY+fePBpFTYwiTv72RJHb/ImWGIft vr9CFZs/JpGrjTEaMZszIht33SJwHGq+cuGaEwuVEklTnzjIWEA= =ZWF8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb--