Re: [edk2-devel] PR#5939 broke the legacy VM bootup

["Ard Biesheuvel via groups.io" <ardb=kernel.org@groups.io>]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 18:27, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>
> > > The solutions are:
> > > - disable the EFI memory attributes protocol altogether.
> >
> > Is this possible via a build macro/flag? Or alternatively via the QEMU
> > commandline/fw_cfg?
>
> fedora builds are using this downstream:
> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/10667
>
> > > - ignore the distros so they are forced to clean up their mess.
> >
> > Is this the solution the EDK2 project opted for/status quo?
>
> It's the status quo.
>

Note that EDK2 is the reference implementation of UEFI. OVMF is an
outlier because it is used in production almost unmodified, but in the
general case, the reference implementation is used as the basis for
production platforms shipping in the future. Therefore, it is not the
place to put hacks to work around nasty issues that the downstream
users cannot be bothered to address.


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