Re: [edk2] [PATCH 0/8] OVMF support for QEMU's PC System Flash

2013-11-02 Thread Andrew Fish
On Nov 2, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > According to the above, the UUID is VM specific, permanent, stored on > the host side in the VM config XML, and independent of the OVMF build. > The host administrator can edit the UUID if necessary. I believe that > should mostly accommodate you

Re: [edk2] [PATCH 0/8] OVMF support for QEMU's PC System Flash

2013-11-02 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 11/01/13 21:46, Andrew Fish wrote: > > On Nov 1, 2013, at 2:34 AM, Andrew fish > wrote: > >> A separate FD would be the easiest way to deal with this. You could >> have an installer step in the build that only copies over the NV >> storage FD if it does not exist. >> >

Re: [edk2] [PATCH 0/8] OVMF support for QEMU's PC System Flash

2013-11-01 Thread Andrew Fish
On Nov 1, 2013, at 2:34 AM, Andrew fish wrote: > A separate FD would be the easiest way to deal with this. You could have an > installer step in the build that only copies over the NV storage FD if it > does not exist. > > You guys should also implement the PXE UUID as a different UUID per >

Re: [edk2] [PATCH 0/8] OVMF support for QEMU's PC System Flash

2013-11-01 Thread Jordan Justen
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 10/28/13 22:27, Jordan Justen wrote: >> https://github.com/jljusten/edk2.git ovmf-nvvars-v1 >> >> This series implements support for QEMU's emulated >> system flash. >> >> This allows for persistent UEFI non-volatile variables. >> >> Previou

Re: [edk2] [PATCH 0/8] OVMF support for QEMU's PC System Flash

2013-11-01 Thread Andrew fish
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 1, 2013, at 1:40 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> On 10/28/13 22:27, Jordan Justen wrote: >> https://github.com/jljusten/edk2.git ovmf-nvvars-v1 >> >> This series implements support for QEMU's emulated >> system flash. >> >> This allows for persistent UEFI non-volati

Re: [edk2] [PATCH 0/8] OVMF support for QEMU's PC System Flash

2013-11-01 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 10/28/13 22:27, Jordan Justen wrote: > https://github.com/jljusten/edk2.git ovmf-nvvars-v1 > > This series implements support for QEMU's emulated > system flash. > > This allows for persistent UEFI non-volatile variables. > > Previously we attemptedto emulate non-volatile > variables in a few

[edk2] [PATCH 0/8] OVMF support for QEMU's PC System Flash

2013-10-28 Thread Jordan Justen
https://github.com/jljusten/edk2.git ovmf-nvvars-v1 This series implements support for QEMU's emulated system flash. This allows for persistent UEFI non-volatile variables. Previously we attemptedto emulate non-volatile variables in a few ways, but each of them would fail in particular situation