Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: dann frazier <da...@debian.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org
* Package name : virt-firmware Version : 23.10 Upstream Contact: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> * URL : https://gitlab.com/kraxel/virt-firmware * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi) firmware images This is a collection of tools for edk2 firmware images. They support decoding and printing the content of firmware volumes. Variable stores (e.g. OVMF_VARS.fd) can be modified, for example to enroll secure boot certificates. Tools included: virt-fw-dump - Decodes and prints the content of firmware volumes. virt-fw-vars - Print and edit variable store volumes. Currently focused on enrolling certificates and enabling secure boot. virt-fw-sigdb - Print and edit EFI signature database files. host-efi-vars - Read efi variables from linux efivarfs and decode/print them. kernel-bootcfg - Manage efi boot configuration for UKIs (unified kernel images) when using direct boot (without boot loader like grub or systemd-boot). pe-dumpinfo - Information dump for pe (the format used by EFI) binaries. pe-listsigs - List signatures and certificate chain for pe binaries. Can also extract certificates & signatures. My immediate motivation for packaging this is that, as the maintainer of the edk2 package, I need to remove some deprecated image types - specifically the OVMF 2M images. These utilities can help users migrate their VMs to supported types by dumping/loading the variable stores. In the future, I expect edk2 packaging to evolve into using these tools to modify images out-of-band, instead of launching QEMU instances to modify them in-band as part of the build.
