Xen devel - Feb 2007 - EFI guest firmware for xen-ia64: where to put the sources ?

Hi,

until recently, the hvm guest firmware for xen-ia64 was a private binary
file owned and delivered by Intel.

I have written an open-source implementation based on tianocore.org.

The ia64 firmware is roughly speaking EFI.  I have also ported tianocore to
Qemu/x86.  It shouldn''t be hard to port it to x86.

Because the sources are big (at least 40MB) and the buildery is not easy
(build tools are java-based), I don''t think it should be included in
the
Xen repository like the x86 firmware.

I''d propose to create a new mercurial tree.  Are there better ideas ?

Tristan.

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> until recently, the hvm guest firmware for xen-ia64 was a private
binary
> file owned and delivered by Intel.
> 
> I have written an open-source implementation based on tianocore.org.
> 
> The ia64 firmware is roughly speaking EFI.  I have also ported
tianocore to
> Qemu/x86.  It shouldn''t be hard to port it to x86.
> 
> Because the sources are big (at least 40MB) and the buildery is not
easy
> (build tools are java-based), I don''t think it should be included
in
the
> Xen repository like the x86 firmware.
> 
> I''d propose to create a new mercurial tree.  Are there better
ideas ?
That sounds like a decent solution. If you send an initial repo tar ball
and an ssh key we can get this up on xenbits. What would be a good repro
name? ia64-vfirmware.hg ?

Ian

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On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 21:23 +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> 
> That sounds like a decent solution. If you send an initial repo tar ball
> and an ssh key we can get this up on xenbits. What would be a good repro
> name? ia64-vfirmware.hg ?
   I think x86 might want this at some point too, so maybe
efi-vfirmware.hg or something.  Thanks,

	Alex

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