On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 10:43 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
It's even more fundamental. OVMF as a whole (at least in it's usable form) is not Open Source.
The FAT module is required to make EDK2 usable, and yes, that's not Open Source. So in a sense you're right.
But we're talking here about *replacing* the FAT module with something that *is* open source. And the FAT module isn't a fundamental part of EDK2; it's just an optional module that happens to be bundled with the repository.
So I think you're massively overstating the issue. OVMF/EDK2 *is* Open Source, and replacing the FAT module really isn't that hard.
We can only bury our heads in the sand and ship qemu with non-EFI-capable firmware for so long...
I *know* there's more work to be done. We have SeaBIOS-as-CSM, Jordan has mostly sorted out the NV variable storage, and now the FAT issue is coming up to the top of the pile. But we aren't far from the point where we can realistically say that we want the Open Source OVMF to be the default firmware shipped with qemu.