On 07/19/16 12:48, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Hi,
(2) ia32 ovmf too? Will anybody use it?
Then the next question is, what's the status of 32-bit UEFI OSes? Simple:
[ summary: bad ]
Yep, that matches the impression I have.
Guess we don't want bother then.
Enabling Secure Boot in the OVMF binary is orthogonal to all of the
above, but it has a licensing impact. It embeds (a subset of) OpenSSL in
the binary, and changes the terms from "2-clause BSDL" to "2-clause BSDL
and OpenSSL license" ("and" in the restrictive, not permissive, sense).
I'm unsure if QEMU is willing and able to distribute such binaries.
For the widest and simplest usability, X64 (without the SMM driver stack
and without Secure Boot) is likely the best.
Yes (also note the smm-enabled one doesn't run on i440fx).
So the options I see are (a) build without smm or (b) build two
variants.
I think people who just want to run "UEFI payloads" are served well
enough by SMM-less. There are some developers who would benefit from a
-D SMM_REQUIRE build as well, but that would be because they actually
focus on SMM, I believe, so they can build their own firmware.
If this is about the convenience of QEMU end-users, then I vote (a). I'd
certainly like to avoid fielding bug reports that boil down to "I booted
the -D SMM_REQUIRE build on i440fx".