On 18 September 2014 05:18, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/18/14 13:44, Andreas Färber wrote: >> Hello Laszlo, >> >> Am 18.09.2014 um 10:23 schrieb Laszlo Ersek: >>> I've been made an offer that I couldn't refuse :) to "organize" a Birds >>> of a Feather session concerning OVMF at the KVM Forum 2014. >>> >>> Interested people, please sign up: >>> >>> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Forum_2014_BOF#OVMF >> >> Nice idea. Your summary mentions only ia32 and x86_64 - I would be >> interested in an update on OVMF for AArch64 - there seemed to already be >> support for ARM's Foundation Model but not yet for QEMU. > > We've successfully UEFI-booted > - GNU/Linux guest(s) on > - upstream edk2 (*) and > - upstream qemu-system-aarch64 with > - TCG on x86_64 host, > - KVM on aarch64 host (**) > > (*) Ard's patches for upstream edk2 are in the process of being tested / > merged. > They have been merged as of yesterday. > (**) Ard's patches for the upstream host kernel (== KVM) have been... > ugh, not sure... applied to a maintainer tree? Ard? :) > Some are in kvm/master, which I think means to should go into the next 3.17-rc, although I haven't seen much movement there. Some other bits are being taken through the kvmarm/queue branch, so they should arrive by 3.18-rc1 > So, it works (as far as I tested it myself on TCG, and heard reports > about it on KVM), but right now you need to apply a handful of pending > patches manually. > > We can certainly talk about Aarch64 at the BoF, but then Ard should > co-organize. No good deed goes unpunished, as ever! :) > I do appreciate the suggestion, but I don't think it will be feasible for me to come to Duesseldorf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
