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
