Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/14] tests: acpi: ignore SMBIOS tests when UEFI firmware is used

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> This approach allows the UEFI app source to live in the QEMU tree, and
> the affected maintainer(s) would be personally responsible for setting
> up their edk2 clones, and compilers. (The edk2 clone could even be a
> submodule of QEMU, for example at roms/edk2.) For example,
> "roms/Makefile" already calls an external EFIROM utility (also from
> edk2) in order to build the combined iPXE option ROMs.
> 
> And yes, we could turn the UEFI binaries into bootable ISO images at once.
> 
> I'll try to post some patches soon (or not so soon). I think the app's
> source code, and the edk2 submodule, should live under roms/, and the
> bootable images should live under pc-bios/.
> 
> (In fact we could use this opportunity to build & bundle OVMF itself...
> not sure if that's in scope for now. Gerd, what's your take?)

Well, there is still the idea to move over firmware submodules and
prebuilt firmware blobs to a separate repo.  Expermimental repo:
https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/qemu-firmware/.  Not touched for more than a
year due to being busy with other stuff.  Oh well ...

(if someone feels like picking this up feel free to do so).

I think adding edk2 as submodule below roms/ makes sense.  Adding rules
to roms/Makefile to build the blobs makes sense too.  Not sure we want
the binaries actually copied over to pc-bios/ and commited as the uefi
firmware is pretty big ...

Not sure what a good place for the uefi app would be.  I'd tend to not
use roms/, that is the place for firmware submodules.  contrib/ or test/
maybe?

cheers,
  Gerd