Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v1] OvmfPkg: Add build options for 8MB and 16MB X64 OVMF images

["Devon Bautista" <dbautista@newmexicoconsortium.org>]

On 5/27/21 3:14 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 05/27/21 12:12, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> On 05/26/21 19:08, Devon Bautista wrote:
>>> Currently, the largest volume size for building OVMF images is 4MB. With
>>> the growth of the Linuxboot project, maintainers have had to maintain a
>>> fork containing this patch which allows larger image sizes in order for
>>> Linuxboot developers/users to have enough space to experiment with
>>> and test including their own Linux kernel in the DXE section of OVMF
>>> firmware. Testing using OVMF is valuable since it allows testing in QEMU
>>> and thus does not require any hardware to do so.
>>>
>>> This patch allows specifying '-D FD_SIZE_8MB' or '-D FD_SIZE_16MB' to
>>> the OVMF build script in order to add the ability to build 8MB or 16MB
>>> x86_64 (X64) OVMF images, respectively.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Devon Bautista <dbautista@newmexicoconsortium.org>
>>> ---
>>>   OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgDefines.fdf.inc | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>   OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc         | 10 +++++++++-
>>>   OvmfPkg/VarStore.fdf.inc       | 16 ++++++++--------
>>>   3 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>>
>> I'm providing minimal feedback here just to get this review off my plate
>> as quickly as possible. Sorry, I'm collapsing under my TODO list.
> PS: please file a tianocore feature request at <https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/>, and please link the current (v1) posting into it (in a new bugzilla comment), with the following URLs:
>
> https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/75666
> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/edk2-devel-archive/2021-May/msg01106.html
> http://mid.mail-archive.com/7bfd4b82fc725302beb37e13c4a89d389c34ec34.1622048433.git.dbautista@newmexicoconsortium.org
>
> Thanks!
> Laszlo
>
Tianocore Feature Request:
https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3420