Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] OvmfPkg PlatformBootManagerLib: Move TryRunningQemuKernel()

["Christoph Willing" <chris.willing@linux.com>]

With soft feature freeze started, I wonder if this patch could be
reviewed and pushed for edk2-stable202108 tag? I think it has languished
because I didn't initially Cc appropriately - pls add others as necessary.

This patch is a trivial (I think) change which fixes a long standing and
annoying bug for those booting Qemu with UEFI using external kernel &
initrd.

Thanks,
chris

On 28/7/21 12:02 pm, Christoph Willing wrote:
> Ref: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3504
> 
> This change ensures that PlatformBdsConnectSequence()  is run
> before TryRunningQemuKernel().
> 
> It reverses commit a34a886962561f6d8550b2a1bb193798ca456431 which aimed
> to improve UEFI boot time. Unfortunately that commit now results in boot
> failure when using qemu's -kernel option, therefore rendering the -initrd
> & -append options useless.
> 
> Such failures are seen in all releases from edk2-stable201808 to
> edk2-stable202105 as well as the master branch.
> 
> The last releases which actually work correctly are vUDK2017 and vUDK2018
> as they don't contain the a34a88 commit.
> 
> This change has been tested with edk2-stable201808, edk2-stable201811,
> edk2-stable202105 as well as master (at 21/7/2021). It results in correct
> booting using the -kernel option in all the test cases. No measurable
> change in boot times was discernible compared with the unaffected vUDK2017
> & vUDK2018 releases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Willing <chris.willing@linux.com>
> ---
>  OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLib/BdsPlatform.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLib/BdsPlatform.c b/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLib/BdsPlatform.c
> index b0e9742937..f08ace87b3 100644
> --- a/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLib/BdsPlatform.c
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLib/BdsPlatform.c
> @@ -1517,14 +1517,14 @@ PlatformBootManagerAfterConsole (
>    Tcg2PhysicalPresenceLibProcessRequest (NULL);
>  
>    //
> -  // Process QEMU's -kernel command line option
> +  // Perform some platform specific connect sequence
>    //
> -  TryRunningQemuKernel ();
> +  PlatformBdsConnectSequence ();
>  
>    //
> -  // Perform some platform specific connect sequence
> +  // Process QEMU's -kernel command line option
>    //
> -  PlatformBdsConnectSequence ();
> +  TryRunningQemuKernel ();
>  
>    EfiBootManagerRefreshAllBootOption ();
>  
>