Re: UEFI support in ARM DomUs

[Roman Shaposhnik <roman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 8:31 AM Stefano Stabellini
<sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> > On 6/4/20 4:57 AM, Peng Fan wrote:
> > > Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>;
> > >> Nataliya Korovkina <malus.brandywine@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Subject: UEFI support in ARM DomUs
> > > We have made U-Boot run inside XEN DomU, but just only PV console part,
> > > not implement other frontend drivers currently. Would this help for your
> > > case if enable EFI in U-Boot?
> >
> > Well, we have a working PV block implementation on top of that on iMX8
> >
> > platform, mostly ported from mini-os. Currently we are finalizing the work
> >
> > and cleaning up (it's going to take a week or so hopefully). Then, we we'll 
> > post
> >
> > it on our public github. We are also thinking about upstreaming the work, 
> > but it may
> >
> > take quite some time if the whole idea fits u-boot's view on such an 
> > extension at all.
>
> Yes please to both of you! :-)
>
> In the meantime, while we wait for those changes to go upstream in
> uboot, could you please post a branch on github and a link on this email
> thread?
>
> Maybe we should have a wikipage on wiki.xenproject.org about
> work-in-progress uboot items.

Yes!!! Speaking of which -- I've been meaning to update the wiki
for quite a few things already, but I'm still waiting on someone (George?)
to give user 'rvs' proper karma.

Thanks,
Roman.