[edk2-devel] [PATCH v1] OvmfPkg: Add build options for 8MB and 16MB X64 OVMF images

Laszlo Ersek lersek at redhat.com
Thu May 27 10:21:36 UTC 2021


Hi Ard, Jordan,

On 05/27/21 12:14, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 05/27/21 12:12, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> On 05/26/21 19:08, Devon Bautista wrote:
>>> Currently, the largest volume size for building OVMF images is 4MB. With
>>> the growth of the Linuxboot project, maintainers have had to maintain a
>>> fork containing this patch which allows larger image sizes in order for
>>> Linuxboot developers/users to have enough space to experiment with
>>> and test including their own Linux kernel in the DXE section of OVMF
>>> firmware. Testing using OVMF is valuable since it allows testing in QEMU
>>> and thus does not require any hardware to do so.
>>>
>>> This patch allows specifying '-D FD_SIZE_8MB' or '-D FD_SIZE_16MB' to
>>> the OVMF build script in order to add the ability to build 8MB or 16MB
>>> x86_64 (X64) OVMF images, respectively.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Devon Bautista <dbautista at newmexicoconsortium.org>
>>> ---
>>>  OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgDefines.fdf.inc | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc         | 10 +++++++++-
>>>  OvmfPkg/VarStore.fdf.inc       | 16 ++++++++--------
>>>  3 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>>
> 
>> I'm providing minimal feedback here just to get this review off my plate
>> as quickly as possible. Sorry, I'm collapsing under my TODO list.
> 
> PS: please file a tianocore feature request at <https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/>, and please link the current (v1) posting into it (in a new bugzilla comment), with the following URLs:
> 
> https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/75666
> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/edk2-devel-archive/2021-May/msg01106.html
> http://mid.mail-archive.com/7bfd4b82fc725302beb37e13c4a89d389c34ec34.1622048433.git.dbautista@newmexicoconsortium.org

You weren't CC'd on the patch up-front, and I too forgot adding you
immediately. Please consider checking the thread from the root; please
see the archive URLs above.

Thanks!
Laszlo



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