[edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] OvmfPkg: Introduce 16MiB flash size for (primarily) Linuxboot

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 05:26:20AM +0000, Devon Bautista wrote:
> The largest size flash image currently available for OVMF builds, 4MiB,
> is too small to insert a Linux kernel and initramfs into the DXEFV, and
> is thus insufficient for testing Linuxboot builds via OVMF.

>   FVMAIN_COMPACT             uncompressed        3360 -> 15648 (+12288)
>     FV FFS file              LZMA compressed
>       PEIFV                  uncompressed         896 ->   896 (    +0)
>         individual PEI       uncompressed
>           modules
>       DXEFV                  uncompressed       12288 -> 12288 (    +0)
>         individual DXE       uncompressed
>           modules

Patch looks sane to me.

Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>

How you are going to use the extra space you got?
Do you add kernel + initrd as ffs files to FVMAIN_COMPACT?

take care,
  Gerd



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