[OE-core] Add ovmf-native to make qemu-native/runqemu support boot UEFI image?

[Christopher Larson]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:19 PM Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com>
wrote:

> I'd like to add ovmf-native to make qemu-native/runqemu support
> boot UEFI image, that will make us debug UEFI image much more easier,
> without ovmf, we have to burn EFI image to a usb disk or cdrom,
> then boot it on the real hardware, this is inconvenient. (Virtual
> box can't boot our UEFI image, either, please see my last email
> about virtualbox, we may fix it later.)
>
> The ovmf is released under BSD license:
> http://www.tianocore.org/ovmf/
> The website says:
> License information: BSD (May contain an additional exception if bundled
> with
> the FAT driver.)
>
> We don't use the prebuilt FAT driver, we will build it from ovmf source.
>
> I tried it in my local repo, it works.
>
> We need to do:
> 1) Add ovmf-native to oe-core.
> 2) Move acpica from meta-oe to oe-core since ovmf-naive requires iasl
> which is
>     provided by acpica, we may also move acpitests to oe-core since it is
> used
>     for testing acpica, others are not needed.
> 3) Update runqemu to make it can boot EFI image.
>
> Of course, this for master branch only.
>
> Any objections or comments, please ?
>

Seems like a good idea to me. I'd love to be able to test EFI images in
qemu, and there's an open issue in bugzilla about it.
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