[vfio-users] Fwd: UEFI & virt-manager on Arch

[sL1pKn07 SpinFlo]

_url="$(curl -sL https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/edk2/ | grep
ovmf-x64 | awk -v FS="href=\"" -v RS="\">" '$0=$2')"
_ver="$(echo ${_url} | awk -v FS="0-" -v RS=".noarch" '$0=$2')"
_checksum_url="$(curl -sL
https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/repodata/ | grep primary.xml |
awk -v FS="href=\"" -v RS="\">" '$0=$2')"
_checksum="$(curl -sL --compressed
https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/repodata/${_checksum_url} |
gunzip - | grep -A3 '<name>edk2.git-ovmf-x64</name>' | tail -n1 | awk
-v FS="\">" -v RS="</" '$0=$2')"

pkgname=edk2.git-ovmf
pkgver="${_ver}"
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="UEFI firmware for x64 qemu guests (OVMF)"
arch=('any')
url='https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/edk2'
license=('GPL')
source=("https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/edk2/${_url}")
sha256sums=("${_checksum}")

package() {
  cd "${srcdir}"
  for i in $(find . -type f); do install -Dm644 ${i} "${pkgdir}/${i}"; done
}

2016-04-15 15:01 GMT+02:00 Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>:
> That article is being rewritten in a neighbor thread, beware.
>
> On Apr 15, 2016 3:36 PM, "Garland Key" <david.garland.key at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Arch doesn't provide these files.  In the wiki, you're asked to extract
>> the files from the rpm and copy them to the appropriate directly.  From
>> there, you modify the config file to point to the bin files so that
>> virt-manager can see it.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/15/16 12:58, Philip Abernethy wrote:
>>> > The upside to my, admittedly cludgy, solution is that it works without
>>> > adding custom repos or installing half-assed AUR packages.
>>> > You may want to consider explaining the situation to the maintainer of
>>> > extra/ovmf and perhaps suggest a solution.
>>> >
>>> > Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com <mailto:lersek at redhat.com>> schrieb am
>>> > Fr., 15. Apr. 2016 um 12:08 Uhr:
>>> >
>>> >     On 04/15/16 10:45, Philip Abernethy wrote:
>>> >     > I'm using extra/ovmf on my machine and just had to add
>>> >     >
>>> >     > nvram = [
>>> >     >    "/usr/share/ovmf/ovmf_x64.bin:/usr/share/ovmf/ovmf_x64.bin"
>>> >     > ]
>>>
>>> I am not an Arch Linux user, so -- while I am very fond of the Arch
>>> Linux documentation! -- I would prefer if Arch Linux users talked to
>>> their packagers.
>>>
>>> Gerd's build script is publicly available, of course: either from the
>>> src.rpm under <https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/edk2/>, or directly
>>> from git: <https://www.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/edk2/tree/edk2.git.spec>.
>>>
>>> So... I cannot say if ArchLinux actually ships the split files, and just
>>> the above example was incorrect, *or* if ArchLinux doesn't even ship the
>>> split files.
>>>
>>> In the ArchLinux wiki,
>>>
>>>
>>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Complete_example_for_QEMU_.28CLI-based.29_without_libvirtd
>>>
>>> I saw pathnames like
>>>
>>>   /usr/share/ovmf/x64/ovmf_code_x64.bin
>>>   /usr/share/ovmf/x64/ovmf_vars_x64.bin
>>>
>>> hence I assumed that ArchLinux was shipping the split files (and that
>>> the example near the top was incorrect). I may have been wrong -- I
>>> don't use Arch and don't know what Arch package provides what files.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Laszlo
>>
>>
>>
>>
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