Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vexpress: Add support for the -bios flag to provide firmware

[Peter Maydell]

On 29 May 2014 15:46, Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden> wrote:
> (2) Can anyone post / link a concise, *up-to-date* command line for
> upstream qemu, in connection with *upstream* edk2 build instructions, so
> that I can test aarch64 UEFI stuff on an x86_64 host (with TCG)?

Note that AArch64 isn't relevant to this patch, because
this patch is for the vexpress models, which are AArch32 only.

AArch64 UEFI-on-QEMU stuff is very much work in progress as
I understand it and needs hacks to all of UEFI, QEMU and
the guest kernel. You could probably try starting with
https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/UEFIforQEMU

> What DSC platform is built in edk2? What qemu machine type is used? If
> the needed edk2 changes are downstream only, what branch of what repo
> should I look at?
>
> The last info I have on this is that ArmPlatformPkg "intended" to grow a
> dedicated platform (a DSC) for qemu's -M virt, because Olivier didn't
> like the vexpress DSCs being reused for virtual machines.

This sort of question is probably better asked on a UEFI
mailing list...

thanks
-- PMM