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From: "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: "Xu, Min M" <min.m.xu@intel.com>, joeyli <jlee@suse.com>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 1/1] OvmfPkg/PlatformPei: Skip PlatformInitEmuVariableNvStore in SEV guest
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 01:03:28PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> On 4/11/23 05:04, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 12:00:46PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the quick turn-around, but that patch didn't work for me. I've
> > > update the bugzilla.
> > 
> > Can you try the patch below?
> 
> That doesn't work either.
> 
> Specifying both OVMF_CODE.fd and OVMF_VARS.fd generates an ASSERT.

Both as pflash I assume?  Which assert?

> Specifying just OVMF_CODE.fd causes VMRUN failure (triple fault)

That's not a valid configuration anyway.

> Specifying just OVMF.fd boots successfully

pflash or -bios or both?

For which cases does the patch change behavior?

take care,
  Gerd