Re: [PATCH v3 00/23] hw/uefi: add uefi variable service

2025-02-20 Thread Ilias Apalodimas
Hi Alex, Ard, Gerd, Thanks for roping me in, On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 12:13, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 11:11, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > > > > On 13.02.25 10:41, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 at 10:23, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > >> This patch adds a virtua

Re: [PATCH v3 00/23] hw/uefi: add uefi variable service

2025-02-13 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 11:11, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > On 13.02.25 10:41, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 at 10:23, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > >> This patch adds a virtual device to qemu which the uefi firmware can use > >> to store variables. This moves the UEFI variable management

Re: [PATCH v3 00/23] hw/uefi: add uefi variable service

2025-02-13 Thread Alexander Graf
On 13.02.25 10:41, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 at 10:23, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: This patch adds a virtual device to qemu which the uefi firmware can use to store variables. This moves the UEFI variable management from privileged guest code (managing vars in pflash) to the host.

Re: [PATCH v3 00/23] hw/uefi: add uefi variable service

2025-02-13 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 at 10:23, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > This patch adds a virtual device to qemu which the uefi firmware can use > to store variables. This moves the UEFI variable management from > privileged guest code (managing vars in pflash) to the host. Main > advantage is that the need to h

[PATCH v3 00/23] hw/uefi: add uefi variable service

2025-02-11 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
This patch adds a virtual device to qemu which the uefi firmware can use to store variables. This moves the UEFI variable management from privileged guest code (managing vars in pflash) to the host. Main advantage is that the need to have privilege separation in the guest goes away. On x86 privi