[edk2] OVMF whitepaper released

2015-03-09 Thread Laszlo Ersek
http://people.redhat.com/~lersek/ovmf-whitepaper-c770f8c.txt (An official Red Hat whitepaper PDF edition, for graphical displays, is in the works. As time and technical hurdles allow, both the plain text and the PDF editions shall appear under too, replacing th

Re: [edk2] Running UEFI applications under OVMF

2015-03-09 Thread JCA
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 03/09/15 21:03, JCA wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >>> On 03/09/15 20:36, JCA wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > Option 2 should suffice for quick & dirty testing, if you

Re: [edk2] Running UEFI applications under OVMF

2015-03-09 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 03/09/15 23:36, JCA wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:03 PM, JCA <1.41...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >>> On 03/09/15 20:36, JCA wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 03/09/15 19:56, JCA wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 9

Re: [edk2] Running UEFI applications under OVMF

2015-03-09 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 03/09/15 21:03, JCA wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 03/09/15 20:36, JCA wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: Option 2 should suffice for quick & dirty testing, if you can get virtio-blk-pci working. >>> >>> Thanks for your

Re: [edk2] Running UEFI applications under OVMF

2015-03-09 Thread JCA
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:03 PM, JCA <1.41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 03/09/15 20:36, JCA wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: On 03/09/15 19:56, JCA wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Laszlo Ersek wro

Re: [edk2] ShellPkg: Help and Error Messages Update

2015-03-09 Thread Carsey, Jaben
Reviewed-by: Jaben Carsey Commit 17032 From: Shah, Tapan [mailto:tapands...@hp.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 12:49 PM To: Carsey, Jaben; edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: El-Haj-Mahmoud, Samer; Carsey, Jaben Subject: ShellPkg: Help and Error Messages Update Importance: High Jaben,

Re: [edk2] Running UEFI applications under OVMF

2015-03-09 Thread JCA
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 03/09/15 20:36, JCA wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >>> On 03/09/15 19:56, JCA wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >>> > (2) A variant of the above. Create an empty directory o

Re: [edk2] Running UEFI applications under OVMF

2015-03-09 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 03/09/15 20:36, JCA wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 03/09/15 19:56, JCA wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> (2) A variant of the above. Create an empty directory on the host, and copy your UEFI application binary there

Re: [edk2] Running UEFI applications under OVMF

2015-03-09 Thread JCA
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 03/09/15 19:56, JCA wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >>> (2) A variant of the above. Create an empty directory on the host, and >>> copy your UEFI application binary there. Then use the following qemu >>> opt

Re: [edk2] Running UEFI applications under OVMF

2015-03-09 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 03/09/15 19:56, JCA wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> (2) A variant of the above. Create an empty directory on the host, and >> copy your UEFI application binary there. Then use the following qemu >> options: >> >> -drive file=fat:/host/directory/name,id=drive0

Re: [edk2] Discussion about new mailing list host

2015-03-09 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 03/09/15 19:54, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 03/09/15 17:31, Brian J. Johnson wrote: >> On 03/09/2015 10:40 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >>> I also support David's recommendations: dropping the [edk2] subject >>> prefix, and (especially!) the obnoxious Reply-To header, exactly for the >>> reasons Davi

Re: [edk2] Running UEFI applications under OVMF

2015-03-09 Thread JCA
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 03/09/15 16:57, JCA wrote: >> I have just started looking into UEFI in general, and EDK II and OVMF >> in particular, so I may be asking trivial, even annoying, questions. >> Please bear with me and my current level of ignorance. >> >> I ha

Re: [edk2] Discussion about new mailing list host

2015-03-09 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 03/09/15 17:31, Brian J. Johnson wrote: > On 03/09/2015 10:40 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> I also support David's recommendations: dropping the [edk2] subject >> prefix, and (especially!) the obnoxious Reply-To header, exactly for the >> reasons David named. > > Personally, I like the Reply-To h

Re: [edk2] Running UEFI applications under OVMF

2015-03-09 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 03/09/15 16:57, JCA wrote: > I have just started looking into UEFI in general, and EDK II and OVMF > in particular, so I may be asking trivial, even annoying, questions. > Please bear with me and my current level of ignorance. > > I have been able to install EDK II in my Linux box, and I have u

Re: [edk2] Running UEFI applications under OVMF

2015-03-09 Thread JCA
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:43 AM, S. Vieira wrote: > ===Resending miss word > > Hi JCA > > First, in your box virtuaal ( virtualbox i.e ) the UEFI simulation BIO is > enabled?! ( see it ) > > Second, after of the run the *.efi showed any error? > > 'cause after of to compile, if not showed err

Re: [edk2] Running UEFI applications under OVMF

2015-03-09 Thread S . Vieira
===Resending miss word Hi JCA First, in your box virtuaal ( virtualbox i.e ) the UEFI simulation BIO is enabled?! ( see it ) Second, after of the run the *.efi showed any error? 'cause after of to compile, if not showed error , so can be the your config Thanks ---

Re: [edk2] Running UEFI applications under OVMF

2015-03-09 Thread S . Vieira
Hi JCA First, in your box virtuaal ( virtualbox i.e ) the UEFI simulation BIO is enabled?! ( see it ) Second, after of the run the *.efi showed any error? 'cause after of to compile, if not showed error , so can be the your Second, after of the run the *.efi shown any error? Config Thanks

Re: [edk2] Discussion about new mailing list host

2015-03-09 Thread Brian J. Johnson
On 03/09/2015 10:40 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 03/06/15 23:29, Peterson, Joe wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> The current host for our EDK2 mailing list has had a few technical >> issues lately- primarily that some mails have been significantly >> delayed or not delivered at all. We are investigating o

[edk2] Running UEFI applications under OVMF

2015-03-09 Thread JCA
I have just started looking into UEFI in general, and EDK II and OVMF in particular, so I may be asking trivial, even annoying, questions. Please bear with me and my current level of ignorance. I have been able to install EDK II in my Linux box, and I have used it to build an instance of the OVMF

Re: [edk2] Discussion about new mailing list host

2015-03-09 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 03/06/15 23:29, Peterson, Joe wrote: > Hello all, > > The current host for our EDK2 mailing list has had a few technical > issues lately- primarily that some mails have been significantly > delayed or not delivered at all. We are investigating other options > for this hosting. I know there has

Re: [edk2] [PATCH 1/4] ArmVirtualizationPkg: build UEFI shell from source

2015-03-09 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 03/07/15 07:52, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 6 March 2015 at 13:35, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 03/06/15 13:14, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>> On 5 March 2015 at 11:19, Laszlo Ersek wrote: The stanza for the [Components.common] section of "ArmVirtualization.dsc.inc" originates from under Ovmf

Re: [edk2] Discussion about new mailing list host

2015-03-09 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 22:29 +, Peterson, Joe wrote: > 1) Do you think we should move the archives? It will take a > little effort to do so. Is it going to be worth it? We can point > people to the older (current) archive. I think it's worth doing so. If you're moving to your own mailman-h

Re: [edk2] Discussion about new mailing list host

2015-03-09 Thread Lorer, Michael
Hello, what about using the Github-integrated bugtracker? --- Michael -Original Message- From: Bruce Cran [mailto:bruce.c...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 11:08 PM To: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [edk2] Discussion about new mailing list host Was that me, i

Re: [edk2] Discussion about new mailing list host

2015-03-09 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 08/03/2015 01:44, Jordan Justen wrote: > On 2015-03-07 09:08:05, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 07/03/2015 00:04, Jordan Justen wrote: > > > The other option is to call > > > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.tianocore.devel the official > > > archive. > > > > I don't think that archive is co