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From: "Jordan Justen" <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	devel@edk2.groups.io, rebecca@bsdio.com
Cc: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 1/2] OvmfPkg/build.sh: use newer '-drive if=pflash' syntax when running qemu
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 19:54:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <156393689849.9039.6940197421609488727@jljusten-skl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190724015101.13044-1-rebecca@bsdio.com>

On 2019-07-23 18:51:00,  wrote:
> Specify the firmware to use via the newer '-drive if=pflash' syntax
> which allows specifying the raw format and readonly parameters. This
> avoids warnings with newer version of QEMU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com>
> ---
>  OvmfPkg/build.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/build.sh b/OvmfPkg/build.sh
> index a2c4eff2a5..e2890ff762 100755
> --- a/OvmfPkg/build.sh
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/build.sh
> @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ if [[ "$RUN_QEMU" == "yes" ]]; then
>    fi
>    ln -sf $FV_DIR/OVMF.fd $QEMU_FIRMWARE_DIR/bios.bin
>    if [[ "$ENABLE_FLASH" == "yes" ]]; then
> -    QEMU_COMMAND="$QEMU_COMMAND -pflash $QEMU_FIRMWARE_DIR/bios.bin"
> +    QEMU_COMMAND="$QEMU_COMMAND -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=$QEMU_FIRMWARE_DIR/bios.bin"

It looks like we set ENABLE_FLASH for qemu 1.6 and newer. Does this
work on 1.6?

Also, I don't think we want readonly. Read-write should allow
non-volatile variables to persist across multiple boot.

-Jordan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-24  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-24  1:51 [PATCH 1/2] OvmfPkg/build.sh: use newer '-drive if=pflash' syntax when running qemu rebecca
2019-07-24  1:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] OvmfPkg/build.sh: use $QEMU_FIRMWARE_DIR as QEMU fat root rebecca
2019-07-24  3:09   ` Jordan Justen
2019-07-24 21:31     ` rebecca
2019-07-24  2:54 ` Jordan Justen [this message]
2019-07-24  3:08   ` [edk2-devel] [PATCH 1/2] OvmfPkg/build.sh: use newer '-drive if=pflash' syntax when running qemu rebecca
2019-07-24 12:27   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-07-24 17:26     ` Jordan Justen
2019-07-24 17:39       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-07-24 21:29         ` rebecca
2019-07-24 21:57         ` Jordan Justen
2019-07-25  2:10           ` rebecca
2019-07-24 16:53 ` Michael D Kinney
2019-07-25 15:46   ` rebecca
2019-07-26  0:14 ` Laszlo Ersek

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