[OE-core] [PATCH v4 00/12] UEFI + Secure Boot + qemu

[Ricardo Neri]

On Fri, 2017-01-20 at 15:12 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> There seems to be a consensus that supporting UEFI in OE-core for qemu
> would be valuable, and there have been some (stalled) attempts to add
> it. For reference, see:
>    [OE-core] [PATCH V3 0/3] Add UEFI firmware for qemux86*
>    [OE-core] Add ovmf-native to make qemu-native/runqemu support boot
> UEFI image?
>    https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5654
>    https://github.com/01org/luv-yocto/issues/38
> 
> This patch set includes the necessary recipes (ovmf from meta-luv,
> acpica from
> meta-oe), some improvements to them (in particular, enabling Secure
> Boot), and changes to runqemu to make it easier to boot with UEFI. A
> special image recipes builds an image which can be used to lock down a
> virtual machine by enrolling the "normal" pre-installed certificates.
> 
> In contrast to the first version of this patch series, one can now use
> both a single OVMF firmware file as well as set up persistent
> variables for a virtual machine by using two files.
> 
> Eduardo promised to add automated testing for this once it is in
> OE-core.
> As it stands now, ovmf-shell-image and ovmf without Secure Boot
> enabled
> should at least be part of a world build.
> 
> As discussed on this list, Ricardo and Fathi volunteered to help with
> maintaining the ovmf and acpica recipes in OE-core.
> 
> Beware that "git am --keep-cr" must be used to import the ovmf patches
> correctly.

This patchset looks good to me. I only had one comment/question in patch
5.

If relevant,

Acked-by Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon at linux.intel.com>

Thanks and BR,
Ricardo