[RFC] Proposal to remove DuetPkg

[RFC] Proposal to remove DuetPkg

[Ni, Ruiyu]

All,
DuetPkg depends on Legacy BIOS to provide a UEFI environment. It was invented in the era when UEFI environment is hard to find. Since now UEFI is very popular in PC area, we could stop the official support of this package and remove it from the master.
Anyone who wants to use it still can just grab it from git history. This is the same as what we did for IPF contents.

If there is no concern by end of November, we will send out a formal patch to remove DuetPkg. (Since DuetPkg is big, we will not generate the huge patch using git command, instead we will just send out the patch mail with correct title/commit message but empty content.)

Thanks,
Ray

Re: [RFC] Proposal to remove DuetPkg

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 11/20/18 06:27, Ni, Ruiyu wrote:
> All,
> DuetPkg depends on Legacy BIOS to provide a UEFI environment. It was invented in the era when UEFI environment is hard to find. Since now UEFI is very popular in PC area, we could stop the official support of this package and remove it from the master.
> Anyone who wants to use it still can just grab it from git history. This is the same as what we did for IPF contents.
> 
> If there is no concern by end of November, we will send out a formal patch to remove DuetPkg. (Since DuetPkg is big, we will not generate the huge patch using git command, instead we will just send out the patch mail with correct title/commit message but empty content.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Ray
> 

I have no objection.

Thanks,
Laszlo

Re: [RFC] Proposal to remove DuetPkg

[Leif Lindholm]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 05:27:13AM +0000, Ni, Ruiyu wrote:
> All,
> DuetPkg depends on Legacy BIOS to provide a UEFI environment. It was
> invented in the era when UEFI environment is hard to find. Since now
> UEFI is very popular in PC area, we could stop the official support
> of this package and remove it from the master.
> Anyone who wants to use it still can just grab it from git
> history. This is the same as what we did for IPF contents.
> 
> If there is no concern by end of November, we will send out a formal
> patch to remove DuetPkg. (Since DuetPkg is big, we will not generate
> the huge patch using git command, instead we will just send out the
> patch mail with correct title/commit message but empty content.)

Works for me. If you could include a link to the patch in a branch
where it can be reviewed, that would be ideal.

/
    Leif

Re: [RFC] Proposal to remove DuetPkg

[Kinney, Michael D]

I agree with this proposal.

I also agree with Leif that large patch series
must be shared on a branch for review.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org]
> On Behalf Of Leif Lindholm
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 1:57 AM
> To: Ni, Ruiyu <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Gao, Liming
> <liming.gao@intel.com>; Richardson, Brian
> <brian.richardson@intel.com>; Cetola, Stephano
> <stephano.cetola@intel.com>; Kinney, Michael D
> <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Laszlo Ersek
> <lersek@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [edk2] [RFC] Proposal to remove DuetPkg
> 
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 05:27:13AM +0000, Ni, Ruiyu
> wrote:
> > All,
> > DuetPkg depends on Legacy BIOS to provide a UEFI
> environment. It was
> > invented in the era when UEFI environment is hard to
> find. Since now
> > UEFI is very popular in PC area, we could stop the
> official support
> > of this package and remove it from the master.
> > Anyone who wants to use it still can just grab it from
> git
> > history. This is the same as what we did for IPF
> contents.
> >
> > If there is no concern by end of November, we will send
> out a formal
> > patch to remove DuetPkg. (Since DuetPkg is big, we will
> not generate
> > the huge patch using git command, instead we will just
> send out the
> > patch mail with correct title/commit message but empty
> content.)
> 
> Works for me. If you could include a link to the patch in
> a branch
> where it can be reviewed, that would be ideal.
> 
> /
>     Leif
> 
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> edk2-devel mailing list
> edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel

Re: [RFC] Proposal to remove DuetPkg

[Kinney, Michael D]

Ray,

One additional note.  There are some tools in
BaseTools that are only used by Duet.  We should
remove those tools too.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kinney, Michael D
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 3:21 PM
> To: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>; Ni, Ruiyu
> <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>; Kinney, Michael D
> <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Gao, Liming
> <liming.gao@intel.com>; Richardson, Brian
> <brian.richardson@intel.com>; Cetola, Stephano
> <stephano.cetola@intel.com>; Laszlo Ersek
> <lersek@redhat.com>
> Subject: RE: [edk2] [RFC] Proposal to remove DuetPkg
> 
> I agree with this proposal.
> 
> I also agree with Leif that large patch series
> must be shared on a branch for review.
> 
> Mike
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-
> bounces@lists.01.org]
> > On Behalf Of Leif Lindholm
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 1:57 AM
> > To: Ni, Ruiyu <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
> > Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Gao, Liming
> > <liming.gao@intel.com>; Richardson, Brian
> > <brian.richardson@intel.com>; Cetola, Stephano
> > <stephano.cetola@intel.com>; Kinney, Michael D
> > <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Laszlo Ersek
> > <lersek@redhat.com>
> > Subject: Re: [edk2] [RFC] Proposal to remove DuetPkg
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 05:27:13AM +0000, Ni, Ruiyu
> > wrote:
> > > All,
> > > DuetPkg depends on Legacy BIOS to provide a UEFI
> > environment. It was
> > > invented in the era when UEFI environment is hard to
> > find. Since now
> > > UEFI is very popular in PC area, we could stop the
> > official support
> > > of this package and remove it from the master.
> > > Anyone who wants to use it still can just grab it
> from
> > git
> > > history. This is the same as what we did for IPF
> > contents.
> > >
> > > If there is no concern by end of November, we will
> send
> > out a formal
> > > patch to remove DuetPkg. (Since DuetPkg is big, we
> will
> > not generate
> > > the huge patch using git command, instead we will
> just
> > send out the
> > > patch mail with correct title/commit message but
> empty
> > content.)
> >
> > Works for me. If you could include a link to the patch
> in
> > a branch
> > where it can be reviewed, that would be ideal.
> >
> > /
> >     Leif
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > edk2-devel mailing list
> > edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> > https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel

Re: [RFC] Proposal to remove DuetPkg

[Andrew Fish]

Works for me too. 

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

> On Nov 20, 2018, at 3:20 PM, Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree with this proposal.
> 
> I also agree with Leif that large patch series
> must be shared on a branch for review.
> 
> Mike
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org]
>> On Behalf Of Leif Lindholm
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 1:57 AM
>> To: Ni, Ruiyu <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
>> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Gao, Liming
>> <liming.gao@intel.com>; Richardson, Brian
>> <brian.richardson@intel.com>; Cetola, Stephano
>> <stephano.cetola@intel.com>; Kinney, Michael D
>> <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Laszlo Ersek
>> <lersek@redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: [edk2] [RFC] Proposal to remove DuetPkg
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 05:27:13AM +0000, Ni, Ruiyu
>> wrote:
>>> All,
>>> DuetPkg depends on Legacy BIOS to provide a UEFI
>> environment. It was
>>> invented in the era when UEFI environment is hard to
>> find. Since now
>>> UEFI is very popular in PC area, we could stop the
>> official support
>>> of this package and remove it from the master.
>>> Anyone who wants to use it still can just grab it from
>> git
>>> history. This is the same as what we did for IPF
>> contents.
>>> 
>>> If there is no concern by end of November, we will send
>> out a formal
>>> patch to remove DuetPkg. (Since DuetPkg is big, we will
>> not generate
>>> the huge patch using git command, instead we will just
>> send out the
>>> patch mail with correct title/commit message but empty
>> content.)
>> 
>> Works for me. If you could include a link to the patch in
>> a branch
>> where it can be reviewed, that would be ideal.
>> 
>> /
>>    Leif
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
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>> edk2-devel@lists.01.org
>> https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
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Re: [RFC] Proposal to remove DuetPkg

[Ni, Ruiyu]

On 11/21/2018 7:21 AM, Kinney, Michael D wrote:
> Ray,
> 
> One additional note.  There are some tools in
> BaseTools that are only used by Duet.  We should
> remove those tools too.

Good points. Thanks for the reminding.
> 
> Mike
> 

-- 
Thanks,
Ray