On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Jordan Justen <jljus...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It couldn't hurt if more people that actually care about this spoke up >> on edk2-devel about the issue, or perhaps within a UEFI working group. >> Because, I know that they've stopped listening to me about it. > > Is this useful? I can try to make noise.
Possibly. But, I don't want to give you false hope. :) > I assume since folks like > you who have much more credibility and familiarity in this space have > given up, it's a lost cause. I think customers/partners reporting an issue directly can sometime be more persuasive than a lone engineer saying this somewhat obscure licensing thing will be an issue for free software projects. >> No, but I've always thought that QEMU was happy to have alternative >> firmware projects. > > We are and we're happy to accept patches to enable things even if its > proprietary. But that's all assuming we're improving hardware > emulation. > > What we're talking about here is doing something that's very un-hardware like. Fair enough. I know that it's been done by other VMs, but you certainly have a point in that real systems don't do this. -Jordan
