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Re: [Xen-devel] [edk2] [PATCH RFC 0/7] OvmfPkg: make OVMF fully working with Xen



  Hi,

> Second thought on this.
> 
> The main advantage to have a runtime Pcd over build time static
> configuration is that we can use single binary for all OVMF use cases.
> However currently Xen hvmloader statically embeds firmware blobs in
> itself so it doesn't really matter if OVMF is configurable at runtime.
> So this option will not benifit much unless we overhaul toolstack (libxl
> and hvmloader) to support loading additional firmware blobs.

[ same goes for coreboot btw, there isn't much benefit in
  switching at runtime ]

> > The only other option would be to move those modules to PcAtChipset.
> > But, first we'd have to prove that QEMU & KVM are okay with using
> > those drivers.
> > 
> 
> I presume QEMU / KVM will still need enumeration, so they are not likely
> to make use of those modules.

Correct.

cheers,
  Gerd



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