On 05/21/14 17:43, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 05:31:42PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 05/21/14 16:47, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 04:03:32PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> >>>> This means that beyond realizing the BGRT is "some ACPI table" and >>>> installing it, the parser would have to incorporate knowledge about >>>> BGRT. I might prefer simply failing. >>> >>> Why, because you think supplying a boot image is useless? >> >> It's not useless, but probably very low priority compared to everything >> else that I'm struggling to cover. >> >>>> This disparity in developer resources is a much graver problem than >>>> interface breakage between qemu and OVMF. Your mentioning qemu >>>> potentially bundling OVMF is useful exactly for this reason -- once that >>>> happens, qemu developers will be *forced* to contribute to OVMF, same as >>>> they contribute now to SeaBIOS. >>> >>> Right. I don't know enough ATM to say whether Qemu can or should >>> do this, you should send mail to qemu mailing list if >>> you want to see this discussed. >> >> I believe that people who care about OVMF should come to the list (and >> they sometimes do). I don't see the point of canvassing. I don't want to >> force people to contribute -- with the above I meant that once OVMF is >> bundled with qemu, that's kind of a commitment from the qemu community >> to contribute to OVMF (adapt it to qemu) in the longer term too. > > You'll have hard time people that decisions taken not on qemu mailing > list are somehow binding to qemu community.
Oh I didn't mean it would be a decision (especially not one that I make for others). I wanted to say that "bundling OVMF with QEMU is a *sign* that the bundlers want to keep the bundlees in sync with each other, and are willing to contribute to both for that goal". Thanks Laszlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
