On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 11:18 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Certainly an option, but that is a long-term project.
Out of curiousity, are there other benefits to using coreboot as a core firmware in QEMU?
Is there a payload we would ever plausibly use besides OVMF and SeaBIOS?
I like the idea of using Coreboot on the UEFI side — if the most actively used TianoCore platform is CorebootPkg instead of OvmfPkg, that makes it a lot easier for people using *real* hardware with Coreboot to use TianoCore.
And it helps to dispel the stupid misconception in some quarters that Coreboot *competes* with UEFI and thus cannot possibly be supported because helping something that competes with UEFI would be bad.
Is there a payload we would ever plausibly use besides OVMF and SeaBIOS?
For my part I want to get to the point where the default firmware shipped with qemu can be OVMF. We have SeaBIOS-as-CSM working, which was one of the biggest barriers. There are a few more things (like NV variable storage, in particular) that I need to fix before I can actually make that suggestion with a straight face though...