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From: "Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>
To: devel@edk2.groups.io, dbautista@newmexicoconsortium.org
Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>,
	Erdem Aktas <erdemaktas@google.com>,
	James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>, Min Xu <min.m.xu@intel.com>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v1] OvmfPkg: Add build options for 8MB and 16MB X64 OVMF images
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 12:14:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <db7ba678-246d-f430-b00b-817dbcaadcf4@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c08d6d1b-b1ae-c6f7-3db4-562ccbaac5e8@redhat.com>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-27 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-26 17:08 [PATCH v1] OvmfPkg: Add build options for 8MB and 16MB X64 OVMF images Devon Bautista
2021-05-27 10:12 ` [edk2-devel] " Laszlo Ersek
2021-05-27 10:14   ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2021-05-27 10:21     ` Laszlo Ersek
2021-05-28 20:49     ` Devon Bautista
2021-05-28 13:33   ` Brian J. Johnson
2021-06-01 12:20     ` Laszlo Ersek
2021-07-28 19:43   ` Devon Bautista

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