Re: [RFC] Proposal to remove DuetPkg

[Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>]

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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