Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v4 05/12] ovmf: deploy firmware in image directory

2017-01-27 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 19:25 -0800, Ricardo Neri wrote: > On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 08:45 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > > > On the other hand, this is a new recipe and this may not be super > > > critical. Especially if you meant that only OVMF will not support > > > installing bios.bin in sysroot.

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v4 05/12] ovmf: deploy firmware in image directory

2017-01-26 Thread Ricardo Neri
On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 08:45 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > > On the other hand, this is a new recipe and this may not be super > > critical. Especially if you meant that only OVMF will not support > > installing bios.bin in sysroot. Maybe all is needed is some > > clarification in the commit

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v4 05/12] ovmf: deploy firmware in image directory

2017-01-22 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Sun, 2017-01-22 at 23:23 -0800, Ricardo Neri wrote: > On Fri, 2017-01-20 at 15:12 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > > The traditional usage of ovmf via the qemu bios parameter is no longer > > supported > > I don't see dropping support for this option in this series. > > Is part of > another

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v4 05/12] ovmf: deploy firmware in image directory

2017-01-22 Thread Ricardo Neri
On Fri, 2017-01-20 at 15:12 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > The traditional usage of ovmf via the qemu bios parameter is no longer > supported I don't see dropping support for this option in this series. Is part of another series? I just checked the poky repo and I still the the option supported. Or

[OE-core] [PATCH v4 05/12] ovmf: deploy firmware in image directory

2017-01-20 Thread Patrick Ohly
When used with '-drive if=pflash', qemu will store UEFI variables inside the firmware image file. That is unexpected for a file located in the sysroot, which should be read-only, while it is normal for image files in the deploy/images directory. Therefore that directory is a better place for use