Re: [PATCH 0/4] MdeModulePkg: add support for dispatching foreign arch PE/COFF images

From: "Shi, Steven" <steven.shi@intel.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	"edk2-devel@lists.01.org" <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>
Cc: "Ni, Ruiyu" <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>,
	"Zimmer, Vincent" <vincent.zimmer@intel.com>,
	"Dong, Eric" <eric.dong@intel.com>, Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>,
	"agraf@suse.de" <agraf@suse.de>,
	"Richardson, Brian" <brian.richardson@intel.com>,
	"Kinney, Michael D" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>,
	Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	"Zeng, Star" <star.zeng@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] MdeModulePkg: add support for dispatching foreign arch PE/COFF images
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:47:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <06C8AB66E78EE34A949939824ABE2B313B81CDD8@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180912132151.4258-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

Hi Ard,
Just my curious, are you supporting the below idea of QEMU in UEFI?

QEMU in UEFI - Alexander Graf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxvAH1Q4Mx0
http://events17.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/QEMU%20in%20UEFI.pdf

Steven Shi
Intel\SSG\STO\UEFI Firmware

Tel: +86 021-61166522
iNet: 821-6522

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of
> Ard Biesheuvel
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 9:22 PM
> To: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> Cc: Ni, Ruiyu <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>; Zimmer, Vincent
> <vincent.zimmer@intel.com>; Dong, Eric <eric.dong@intel.com>; Andrew
> Fish <afish@apple.com>; agraf@suse.de; Richardson, Brian
> <brian.richardson@intel.com>; Kinney, Michael D
> <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>; Zeng,
> Star <star.zeng@intel.com>
> Subject: [edk2] [PATCH 0/4] MdeModulePkg: add support for dispatching
> foreign arch PE/COFF images
> 
> Add the basic plumbing to DXE core, the PCI bus driver and the boot manager
> to allow PE/COFF images to be dispatched that target an architecture that is
> not native for the platform, but which is supported by an emulator.
> 
> One implementation of such an emulator can be found here:
> https://github.com/ardbiesheuvel/X86EmulatorPkg
> 
> Cc: Zimmer Vincent <vincent.zimmer@intel.com>
> Cc: Brian Richardson <brian.richardson@intel.com>
> Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
> Cc: Star Zeng <star.zeng@intel.com>
> Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
> Cc: Ruiyu Ni <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
> 
> Ard Biesheuvel (4):
>   MdeModulePkg: introduce PE/COFF image emulator protocol
>   MdeModulePkg/DxeCore: invoke the emulator protocol for foreign images
>   MdeModulePkg/PciBusDxe: invoke PE/COFF emulator for foreign option
>     ROMs
>   MdeModulePkg/UefiBootManagerLib: allow foreign Driver#### images
> 
>  MdeModulePkg/Bus/Pci/PciBusDxe/PciBus.h       |  1 +
>  MdeModulePkg/Bus/Pci/PciBusDxe/PciBusDxe.inf  |  1 +
>  .../Bus/Pci/PciBusDxe/PciOptionRomSupport.c   | 16 +++++-
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/DxeMain.h               |  3 ++
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/DxeMain.inf             |  1 +
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/Image/Image.c           | 39 +++++++++++---
>  .../Include/Protocol/PeCoffImageEmulator.h    | 51 +++++++++++++++++++
>  .../Library/UefiBootManagerLib/BmLoadOption.c | 26 +++++++++-
>  .../Library/UefiBootManagerLib/InternalBm.h   |  1 +
>  .../UefiBootManagerLib/UefiBootManagerLib.inf |  1 +
>  MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dec                 |  4 ++
>  11 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644
> MdeModulePkg/Include/Protocol/PeCoffImageEmulator.h
> 
> --
> 2.17.1
> 
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