Re: [PATCH] Maintainers.txt: update OvmfPkg maintainership

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 08/17/17 12:12, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 01:47:59AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> On 08/17/17 00:37, Jordan Justen wrote:
>>> On 2017-08-16 12:23:49, Leif Lindholm wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>> - the value proposition
>>>> for Linaro is that having maintainer parity ArmVirtPkg/OvmfPkg
>>>> simplifies the task of maintaining feature parity between the two.
>>>> (It is no secret that I would love to see them as a single package,
>>>> making it easier to clean up the way EDK2-for-qemu gets packaged by
>>>> Linux distributions.)
>>>
>>> I would also prefer to have OVMF support ARM and eventually RISC-V as
>>> well. I don't think Laszlo feels as confident about this though.
>>
>> I have two concerns:
>>
>> (1) Reorganizing OvmfPkg for this would take an immense amount of time
>> (with possible regressions).
> 
> Well, I'm the one who keeps pushing for it, so it'd be impolite of me
> to suggest that someone else should have to deal with it.
> 
>> (2) Sharing more code between modules that aren't inherently
>> architecture-independent (and virtualization platform-independent) is risky.
> 
> Let me start by clarifying what I would like to see:
> - ArmVirtPkg and OvmfPkg merged into one package.
> - Merging a lot of common items into shared .dsc.inc and .fdf.inc
>   across all platforms.
> - ARM/AARCH64 platforms added to build.sh/create-release.py.
> - End.

OK, this sounds a lot more palatable to me than unifying actual code.

Thanks!
Laszlo