Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 31/31] OvmfPkg/XenOvmf: use RealTimeClockRuntimeDxe from EmbeddedPkg

["Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 04/09/19 13:08, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> A Xen PVH guest doesn't have a RTC that OVMF would expect, so
> PcatRealTimeClockRuntimeDxe fails to initialize and prevent the firmware
> from finish to boot. To prevent that, we will use the
> XenRealTimeClockLib from ArmVirtPkg which simply always return the same
> time. This will work on both Xen PVH and HVM guests.
> 
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
> Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
> ---
>  OvmfPkg/XenOvmf.dsc | 5 ++++-
>  OvmfPkg/XenOvmf.fdf | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/XenOvmf.dsc b/OvmfPkg/XenOvmf.dsc
> index 72d6ea8b29..14ef9ea9f2 100644
> --- a/OvmfPkg/XenOvmf.dsc
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/XenOvmf.dsc
> @@ -577,7 +577,10 @@ [Components]
>    }
>    MdeModulePkg/Universal/ResetSystemRuntimeDxe/ResetSystemRuntimeDxe.inf
>    MdeModulePkg/Universal/Metronome/Metronome.inf
> -  PcAtChipsetPkg/PcatRealTimeClockRuntimeDxe/PcatRealTimeClockRuntimeDxe.inf
> +  EmbeddedPkg/RealTimeClockRuntimeDxe/RealTimeClockRuntimeDxe.inf {
> +    <LibraryClasses>
> +      RealTimeClockLib|OvmfPkg/Library/XenRealTimeClockLib/XenRealTimeClockLib.inf
> +  }
>    MdeModulePkg/Universal/DriverHealthManagerDxe/DriverHealthManagerDxe.inf
>    MdeModulePkg/Universal/BdsDxe/BdsDxe.inf {
>      <LibraryClasses>
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/XenOvmf.fdf b/OvmfPkg/XenOvmf.fdf
> index 9aa998f15f..1b62da2ec5 100644
> --- a/OvmfPkg/XenOvmf.fdf
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/XenOvmf.fdf
> @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ [FV.DXEFV]
>  INF  MdeModulePkg/Bus/Pci/PciBusDxe/PciBusDxe.inf
>  INF  MdeModulePkg/Universal/ResetSystemRuntimeDxe/ResetSystemRuntimeDxe.inf
>  INF  MdeModulePkg/Universal/Metronome/Metronome.inf
> -INF  PcAtChipsetPkg/PcatRealTimeClockRuntimeDxe/PcatRealTimeClockRuntimeDxe.inf
> +INF  EmbeddedPkg/RealTimeClockRuntimeDxe/RealTimeClockRuntimeDxe.inf
>  
>  INF  OvmfPkg/XenIoPvhDxe/XenIoPvhDxe.inf
>  INF  OvmfPkg/XenIoPciDxe/XenIoPciDxe.inf
> 

(1) I suggest following "ArmVirtXen.dsc", that is, please resolve the
RealTimeClockLib class to XenRealTimeClockLib.inf globally, under
[LibraryClasses].

With that,

Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>

Thanks
Laszlo